| MILKWORT | Small perennial plant such as the Common ___ or Heath ___ (8) |
| GUILLEMOT | Northern oceanic diving bird of the auk family such as the Common ___ or Black ___ (9) |
| NOCTULE | Bat such as the Common ___ or Japanese ___ (7) |
| CROCUS | Large reptile by American's small perennial plant (6) |
| OXLIP | A small perennial plant of open woodland (5) |
| DORMOUSE | Small Old World rodent such as the Common ___ (8) |
| WALLAROO | Large stocky Australian marsupial such as the Common ___ (8) |
| ROBINSON | W Heath ___, English cartoonist noted for his illustrations of elaborate inventions (8) |
| RESTHARROW | Plant of the pea family such as the Common ___ with pink flowers and a tough woody stem (10) |
| SHREW | Small mouse-like long-snouted mammal such as the common ___ (5) |
| LOON | Bird such as the common ___ also called the Great Northern diver (4) |
| DACE | Small freshwater fish such as the Common _ (4) |
| REMORA | Elongated marine fish such as the Common ___ with a sucking disc on the top of its head (6) |
| SANDPIPER | Wading bird with long legs and slender bill such as the Common ___ (9) |
| LILY | Perennial plant such as the Turk's Cap ? or Tiger ? (4) |
| ARTEMISIA | Herbaceous perennial plant such as the mugwort, sagebrush or wormwood (9) |
| EARLYAUGHTS | Genus of small perennial plants of the campanula family, having various common names including silvery dwarf harebell, wheel bell, rock bell or grassy bell (11) |
| RHEUM | Type of perennial plant such as witchhazel, pussy willow, old man's beard dogwood or winter-flowering daphne (5) |
| NOUN | Naming word such as a common ___ or proper ___ (4) |
| TREECREEPER | Small songbird with a curved bill, such as UK resident the common ___ (11) |
