| LITTLEOWL | Often depicted with the goddess of wisdom Athena (hence its binomial nomenclature), the smallest bird in the Strigidae family found in Britain (6,3) |
| LOTUS | Depicted with the goddess Lakshmi, an aquatic flower sacred in Buddhism and Hinduism (5) |
| EMINHNT | In botanical nomenclature, the descriptive word following the capitalised Latin genus name (7) |
| LITTLEOWLS | Small birds of prey often depicted with the Greek goddess Athene (6,4) |
| IBIS | Ancient Egyptian deity Thoth is often depicted with the head of this bird (4) |
| ULULATE | Screech! The woman is back with the goddess of mischief (7) |
| JUNO | Say, are you familiar with the goddess of marriage? (4) |
| ATE | Took sustenance with the goddess of mischief (3) |
| LINNAEUS | Latinised name of the botanist who formalised binomial nomenclature and was the first to remove bats from the birds and classify them under mammals (8) |
| THOTH | God of the moon and of wisdom in Egyptian mythology, usually depicted with the head of an ibis (5) |
| DOMAIN | The highest taxonomic rank in binomial nomenclature; a sphere of knowledge; or, in computing, a set of network addresses identified by a common name (6) |
| PUFFIN | Known as the "clown of the sea" and thus collectively as a circus, an auk found on the Farne Islands and Shetland as well as on Lundy, the island that derived its name from the Norse word for this bir |
| ANIMALS | Organisms for which Carl Linnaeus devised the first binomial nomenclature in Systema Naturae (7) |
| PALLAS | She is the goddess of wisdom and of war, handicraft, and practical reason. The ancient Romans connected her with Minerva. In Titus Andronicus (act 4, scene 1), Marcus Andronicus says, "Apollo, ___, Jo |
| GENUS | A principal taxonomic rank in binomial nomenclature denoted by an italicised Latin name (5) |
| FLORENCE | Riverside city and capital of Tuscany, site of the Uffizi Gallery, where Sandro Botticelli's The Bir |
| GENUSANDSPECIESEPITHET | Binomial nomenclature |
| SCIENTIFICNAME | Binomial nomenclature |
| EVERGREEN | In binomial nomenclature, "sempervirens" denotes ____ plants |
| BEAM | Word for a tree originally, hence its survival in names of arbors including the "horn" and "white" species; or, a transverse timber of a ship, hence the greatest width of said vessel (4) |
