| LUR | Prehistoric bronze trumpet, specimens of which have been found in Danish peat bogs (3) |
| IRISHELK | Extinct giant deer, the remains of which have been found on the Emerald Isle (5,3) |
| AUROCHS | Extinct member of the cattle tribe also called urus, the last specimen of which is believed to have died in Poland in 1627 (7) |
| EEL | Long narrow fish, spawning beds of the freshwater type have been found in the Caribbean's Sargasso S |
| HAT | Headwear that's been found in little backstreet (3) |
| TAR | La Brea ___ Pits (Los Angeles site where dire wolf fossils have been found) |
| BASENJI | Drawings and carvings of what small dog have been found in ancient tombs in Egypt? (7) |
| PLAITS | Lengths of hair, the sections of which have been intertwined in a pattern (6) |
| PLAIT | A length of hair, the strands of which have been intertwined in a pattern (5) |
| SOCKS | What knitted garments have been found in early Egyptian tombs? (5) |
| DIREWOLF | Extinct canine whose fossils have been found in California's La Brea Tar Pits |
| ANNCLEEVES | Which crime writer wrote the Vera Stanhope, Jimmy Perez and Matthew Venn series, all of which have been adapted to TV programs as Vera (from 2011), Shetland (from 2013) and The Long Call (2021)? (3,7) |
| ASHROPSHIRELAD | 1896 collection of sixty-three poems, most of which have been set to music |
| AUSTEN | Author of six major novels including Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park, all of which have been adapted to screen (6) |
| LAMMIE | Andrew ___, folk song that is Child Ballad 233, versions of which have been recorded by The Boys of the Lough, Ewan MacColl, Martin Simpson and Kate Rusby |
| QUARTOS | Books, the sheets of which have been folded into four leaves (7) |
| GOBI | 45 Degrees in summer and -40 degrees in winter, Asia's largest desert and place that first proved dinosaurs laid eggs and where fossils of 80 Of the around 400 dinosaur genera have been found (4) |
| DIKDIK | Couple of detectives - neither of which have the first clue what an antelope is (3-3) |
| SPHAGNUM | Colourful moss vital in the creation of peat bogs (8) |
| SENTENCE | In a law court, the punishment a person receives after they have been found guilty of a crime (8) |
