| SHREWS | Mammals in an order with moles and hedgehogs that form "caravans" or conga lines behind their mothers and eat their bodyweight in food each day (6) |
| PLATYPI | Egg-laying mammals, in an informal plural |
| SONIC | Blue hedgehog that appears in video games (5) |
| MARSUPIAL | A mammal in which the young are born in an immature state and continue development in their mother's pouch (9) |
| BERTHS | Cabins or fixed bunks for sleeping in ships, trains or caravans; or, places of anchorage assigned to boats at docks, wharfs and other moorings (6) |
| INSECTIVORA | Order of mammals that includes hedgehogs, moles and shrews (11) |
| GROUP | A ___ of camels is known as a caravan, flock, train or herd. For example, when travelling in single file under human control they form a caravan or train. When unorganized and on their own, a herd. |
| GORSE | From "stand on end, bristle", "barley" and "hedgehog", the prickly evergreen furze or whin that, according to folklore, when in bloom with golden papilionaceous flowers, kissing is said to be in seaso |
| LONICERA | Latin name of the day- and nightscented twining flower honeysuckle, important for pollinating moths and in turn bats and hedgehogs (8) |
| CROQUET | In a Lewis Carroll story, what game was played with flamingos and hedgehogs? (7) |
| USHERS | These three sisters, who lived with their mother right in the centre of Dorchester, left school, went to top universities and eventually they all became court officials (6) |
| ELECTRA | Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra who persuaded her brother Orestes to murder their mother and her lover Aegisthus (7) |
| DESI | First name in comedy and conga lines |
| EARLY | Marsupial babies are born ___ and spend the rest of the development time in their mother's pouch. |
| UNICEF | Which organisation was formed in 1946 to improve the health and education of children and their mothers? (6) |
| TENNYSON | Iron Mike used to press the green gown - ultimately one that left lines behind (8) |
| HAMMERLOCK | Wrestling hold in which an opponent's arm is twisted upwards behind their back (10) |
| CAMEL | "Oont" forming part of a caravan or train; yellowish-fawn colour of said animal or of a style of overcoat; or, a Cornish river inhabited by otters that flows through Wadebridge (5) |
| WAGON | A cart, dray or wain with wheels, immortalised as marshmallow-filled chocolate biscuits; a Gypsy caravan or vardo; a shooting brake; or, a truck (5) |
| TLC | Short for ?tender loving care", such as what Bianca and Sonia have been trying to give their mother Carol in EastEnders (1,1,1) |
