| TERRESTRIAL | Poison frogs are small, ___ and diurnal and live either in leaf litter on forest floor or high up in the tree canopy |
| MOR | A Cornish or Welsh word for "sea"; or, type of humus forming as a mat of leaf litter on acid soil (3) |
| LEAFMOULD | Having pocketed ring, Maud fell awkwardly on forest floor, it appears |
| RAINFOREST | Poison frogs are known as the jewels of the ___ |
| WARN | Poison frogs are bright coloured to ___ predators of their toxicity |
| FLAT | Bed bugs are small, ___, reddish-brown insects that grow to about 5 mm in length. |
| INSECTS | Mosquitoes are small ___ belonging to the order Diptera (flies) |
| FERNS | Some greenery on forest floors |
| MOSS | Growth on forest floors |
| NESTS | Ovenbirds make theirs on forest floors |
| TALK | Verbal communication, as in Narcissus 'Small ___', and Hemerocallis 'Little Sweet ___'! (4) |
| COLOUR | Poison frogs come in a variety of bright ___ combinations |
| SLIGHT | Small ___ and that's how it meant to make you feel! (6) |
| MEDIUM | Small, ___, and large |
| SOCIAL | Poison dart frogs are ___ animals and live in groups of 4-10 |
| DUFF | Northern dialect for dough, thus flour pudding boiled in a bag; or, in other senses, a word for coal dust, leaf litter, the buttocks/rump or something broken/useless (4) |
| ELFCUPS | Scarlet mushrooms or "fairies' baths" found in moss and leaf litter, used by sprites to drink morning dew, according to folklore (3,4) |
| TOADS | Overwintering in hibernacula including leaf litter, compost and log piles, amphibians Bufo bufo that migrate back to their ancestral breeding ponds in the spring (5) |
| LITTER | Brood of kittens or piglets; or, leaves and other organic matter forming a layer on a forest floor (6) |
| DARTS | The Choco people in western Colombia coat their blow ___ with the poison of the golden poison frog |
