| RHETT | Name rhyming with Chet |
| STRICKLE | Name, rhyming with a word for a drip or a type of chutney, for a rod for levelling a heaped measure of grain; or, a tool for whetting a scythe (8) |
| GECKO | Wall-climbing lizard whose name, rhyming with "echo", echoes its call (5) |
| TRUMPETS | Name, rhyming with a regional word for pikelets, for fanfaring brass instruments to whose notes and flared ends elephants' calls and daffodils' coronas are likened respectively (8) |
| LOAF | Word for a batch, bloomer, boule or other baked block of bread, synonymous with brains/sense, due to "bread" rhyming with "head" (4) |
| EEK | Shriek rhyming with shriek |
| ASIAN | People rhyming with nation |
| INVERSE | Rhyming with "opposite" (7) |
| RUPEE | Coin rhyming with 11 |
| SORREL | Horse color rhyming with "moral" |
| UTNE | Magazine rhyming with a relish |
| ROAR | Word rhyming with "ignore" in "I Am Woman" |
| ONKEY | In tune but rhyming with a simian |
| RENO | City aptly rhyming with "casino" |
| PETS | Animals treated by (and rhyming with) vets |
| THETA | Greek letter after (and rhyming with) eta |
| ETA | Greek letter after (and rhyming with) zeta |
| KAE | Scots "jackdaw", rhyming with "jay" (3) |
| FELUCCAS | Narrow, two-masted Mediterranean sailing ships, rhyming with ... (8) |
| FOE | J. M. Coetzee novel based on, and rhyming with, "Robinson Crusoe" |
