| SELINA | Name of various aliens (6) |
| ELLISISLAND | Raised border welcomed by various aliens heading for dirty old immigration station |
| TALBOT | Extinct breed of white hound, used for the name of various English pubs (6) |
| HERALD | Word for one skilled in blazonry; a crier, proclaimer or other messenger of news, hence found in the names of various newspapers; a harbinger; or, the red-breasted merganser (6) |
| SIERRAMADRE | Name of various mountain ranges in Mexico (6,5) |
| TIT | Name of various types of small acrobatic bird |
| OPUS | Latin for "work", found in the names of various styles of Roman masonry and used in the custom of numbering a specific musical composition (4) |
| ROOT | Name of various plants, especially ones used medicinally (4) |
| BLUEBIRD | Name of various vehicles used by the Campbell family to set land and water speed records |
| SEAPERCH | Common name of various fish inducing the orange roughy, rockfish and bluestripe snapper (3,5) |
| SACK | Old name of various dry white wines from Spain and the Canary Islands |
| CONCH | Common name of various medium to large spiral-shelled marine gastropod molluscs (5) |
| TOMTHUMB | "Pollex"-sized hero of English folklore whose tininess inspired the names of various small plants and vegetables, including a birdsfoot trefoil, a butterhead lettuce, a dwarf snapdragon and a nasturti |
| YOM | Hebrew word for day, used in the names of various Jewish religious observances (3) |
| TARTAN | Any of various patterns or "setts" woven into cloth that are symbolic of Highland clans and iconic of Scottish heritage (6) |
| CRINUM | Any of various plants of the Amaryllis family, characterised by luxuriant clusters of lily-like flowers (6) |
| JATAKA | Any of various stories of former lives of Buddha (6) |
| EARWIG | Any of various insects of the order Dermaptera (6) |
| ESPIES | Caught sight of Elvis's fringes, of various colours (6) |
| BLETIA | Any of various orchids of the genus Bletia having pseudo-bulbs and erect leafless racemes of large purple or pink flowers. |
