| MENAGERIE | Meaning "household", collection of captive, typically exotic beasts, such as that formerly held in the Tower of London that included leopards or lions, a polar bear and an elephant (9) |
| SNOUTS | Word for animals' muzzles, birds' beaks or elephants' trunks originally, later for the more specific noses of beasts such as hedgehogs or pigs (6) |
| ZOO | Collection of captive animals |
| TROUSSEAUX | Household collections famous Frenchman featured in odd bits of text (10) |
| DROMEDARIES | Emir's adored exotic beasts of burden (11) |
| RESTAGED | Once more mounted head of exotic beast in frame of red (8) |
| CHOREO | Performance group's movement plan that's a term meaning "household task" + O: Abbr. |
| LAR | Meaning "household god", name of the white-handed gibbon (3) |
| ASSIZES | The county court sessions formerly held in England and Wales four times a year (7) |
| CONCEIVE | Design is formerly held in vice for shaping |
| ONCE | Formerly held in concert (4) |
| INNS | Pubs or taverns, each with a sign often bearing a picture of a heraldic beast such as a dragon, eagle, griffin, hart, lion, unicorn or wyvern (4) |
| DINO | Beast such as T. rex |
| MONSTER | A scary beast such as a giant ogre or fiery dragon (7) |
| NAGA | A member of a people of NE India and W Myanmar that formerly indulged in headhunting (4) |
| PACHYDERM | Thick-skinned beast, such as a rhino (9) |
| OBSTINATE | Transformed into beast such as a mule |
| OGRE | Beast such as Shrek |
| LION | Beast such as Mufasa |
| INN | A hostelry or tavern, often named after a beast such as a boar, dragon, griffin, hart, swan, talbot or unicorn (3) |
