| CIVETS | Shrews and ___ are immune to millipede toxin |
| INSECTIVORA | Mammal belonging to the group including moles, shrews and hedgehogs (11) |
| ANAGRAM | One way to clue a shrew, and stuff |
| PADUA | Immortalised in The Taming of the Shrew and a play by Oscar Wilde, city in Veneto where Livy was born and Galileo taught at its university (5) |
| POSSUMS | Marsupials that are immune to rattlesnake venom |
| KHV | F1 carp are immune to this viral disease (3) |
| COMMONCOLD | Infection the elite are immune to? (6,4) |
| ROUNDED | Millipedes are usually brown and black in colour, have a ___ body, and range from 10 to 30 centimeters in length |
| RESPIRATOR | Porter airs problem to one of those immune to dust (10) |
| SACREDCOW | Scared to clash with firm wife, one immune to criticism (6,3) |
| ROLL | In SA, the millipede is commonly called a 'shongololo', after the Xhosa and Zulu word 'ukushonga', which means to ___ up |
| RAIN | Millipedes are seen mostly after ___, when they are out searching for decaying plant matter to eat |
| SPECIES | There are about 12000 known ___ of millipede |
| SEGMENTS | Each time it molts, the millipede grows more body ___ and more legs |
| JOINTED | Centipedes and millipedes belong to the phylum Arthropoda which means '___ legs' |
| TAMES | Burton does this to shrews |
| DESMANS | Animals related to shrews |
| SOREX | Animal genus of the family Soricidae to which the shrews belong (5) |
| STAMPEDES | Walruses are spooked easily and ___ are common as they rush in a sudden panicked state |
| COURTESY | "When restraint and ___ are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible": Gandhi |
