| NELUMBO | Plant genus whose two extant species are the sacred lotus of Asia and the water chinquapin of North America (7) |
| MONOTREME | Egg-laying mammal of the order whose only extant species are the platypus and the echidnas (9) |
| TWOTOEDSLOTHS | Linnaeus’s and Hoffmann’s are the only two extant species of ____ |
| ELAN | Two door Lotus of the '60s and '70s |
| NIGELLA | Ranunculaceous plant genus whose members include black caraway and love-ina-mist (7) |
| SOLANUM | Herbaceous plant genus whose members include the potato, aubergine, sunberry etc. (7) |
| THE | Word that starts two extant soap titles |
| FERMOR | Last name of the travel writer who recounted his journey by foot from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul aged 18 in the books A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water (6) |
| FAMILY | There are 2 types of the owl ___, the Barn Owl has a heart-shaped face and is part of the Tytonidae family, while all other owl species are part of the Strigidae family |
| SERIEMA | Large, long-legged territorial bird of South America whose two species are the red-legged _ and black-legged _ (7) |
| ELEPHANT | Mammal whose two species are the African and Indian, the former having larger ears (8) |
| CATALPA | Genus of trees of North America, East Asia and the Caribbean with bell-shaped whitish flowers and heart-shaped leaves |
| PADMA | The sacred lotus in Hinduism and Buddhism; or, a branch of the Ganges (5) |
| MAKO | Heavy-bodied, fast-swimming mackerel shark whose two species are the shortfin and longfin (4) |
| OSTRICH | Running and maintaining speeds of around 40mph, the world's largest and heaviest extant species of bird (7) |
| LOBSTER | The most important commercial crustacean in Europe and the only extant species in the genus Nephrops (6,7) |
| NORWAY | The most important commercial crustacean in Europe and the only extant species in the genus Nephrops (6,7) |
| RHINOCEROS | Odd-toed ungulate of which there are five extant species, two native to Africa and three to southern Asia |
| HORSESHOE | And 21 Marine arthropod of southeast Asia and the northern Atlantic coast of North America with a spiked tail (9,4) |
| WETA | Group of about 70 insects endemic to New Zealand, some species are the world's largest and heaviest (4) |
