| PEACEABLE | Non-aggressive step includes the East, rating the French (9) |
| ABLE | Having the skill to be rating the French (4) |
| PIETY | What a shame to include the East in one's devoutness (5) |
| ABSCOND | Run off with a rating, the second to be forsaken by the East (7) |
| ABEL | Rating the Spanish as the first fratricide victim (4) |
| PEACEFUL | Pacific, which is non-aggressive (8) |
| SOFTSELL | Non-aggressive marketing mentioning comfortable monastic accommodation (4,4) |
| ABOVE | Superior to Naval rating, the leaderless dove (5) |
| TIMID | Non-aggressive |
| MORTLACH | Dufftown product heads many official ratings the longest, and consistently highest (8) |
| GERICAULT | The work of which French painter, a pioneer of the Romantic Movement, includes The Raft of the Medus |
| CHARLATAN | Fake map includes the French article (9) |
| POLYNESIA | Archipelago in the Pacific that includes the Cook Islands, Samoa, Tonga and Tuvalu (9) |
| CAMELIDAE | Mammal family of the order Artiodactyla that includes the llamas and alpacas (9) |
| NARCISSUS | Plant genus of the family Amaryllidaceae that includes the jonquil and daffodil (9) |
| ACCIPITER | Any bird of prey of the genus that includes the sparrowhawk, goshawk etc. (9) |
| BRAINSTEM | Part of the body that includes the medulla oblongata and the pons |
| MERGANSER | Any large diving duck of the genus that includes the goosander, smew etc. (9) |
| SYMBOLIST | The --- movement in poetry includes the work of Verlaine and Rimbaud (9) |
| ACANTHION | Subgenus in the genus Hystrix which includes the Sunda and Malayan porcupines (9) |
