| JERBOA | Long-legged rodent also known as the desert rat |
| NUTRIA | Large semi-aquatic rodent also known as the coypu (6) |
| DEGU | Rodent also known as a brush-tailed rat (4) |
| GUINEAPIG | Rodent also known as a cavy (6,3) |
| NAKEDMOLERAT | Burrowing rodent also known as a sand puppy |
| DESERTRAT | North African rodent also known as a jerboa |
| CARACAL | Also known as the desert lynx, or Persian lynx, this short-tailed cat is found in the hills, deserts, and plains of Africa, the Middle East, and central and southwestern Asia. |
| ROMMEL | WWII commander also known as "The Desert Fox" |
| AGOUTI | Long-legged rodent of the West Indies and Central and South America (6) |
| ERWINROMMEL | German Field Marshal of the Second World War known as the Desert Fox (5,6) |
| ERWIN | Rommel known as the "Desert Fox" |
| VERMIN | Larger billet housed one of the Desert Rats (6) |
| GERBIL | Larger billet housed one of the Desert Rats (6) |
| KHAKI | Colour the Desert Rats wore |
| EIGHTH | ___ Army, WWII unit that included the Desert Rats (6) |
| AGOUTIS | Large, long-legged rodents |
| MOLERAT | Rodent also called a blesmol such as the Naked ___, Heterocephalus glaber (4,3) |
| ELALAMEIN | Town near which Britain's Desert Rats stopped the advance of the Afrika Korps in its push toward the Suez canal |
| COYPU | Semi-aquatic rodent also called a nutria (5) |
| JEROBOAM | Big bottle, round, carried by desert rat Mark (8) |
