| BEHEMOTH | Something huge or gigantic named after a hippopotamus-like animal described in the bible (8) |
| REINDEER | Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet ... one of the eight animals described in the poem A Visit from St Nicholas or The Night Before Christmas (8) |
| MOOMINS | Fictional white, hippopotamus-like creatures with snouts created by Finnish illustrator Tove Jansson (7) |
| HORSES | Animals described in the numerous tales penned for children by the Pullein-Thompson sisters (6) |
| BUSTER | Something large or impressive; a destroyer of colds, crimes, dams or gangs, for example; a horse-breaker; a frolic or a roisterer; a US term for a boy; or, a southerly Australian gale (6) |
| ARARAT | Mountain in Turkey described in the Bible as the resting-place of Noah's Ark (6) |
| NIMROD | Great-grandson of Noah, described in the bible as 'a mighty hunter' (6) |
| REDSEA | Organised a Seder as described in the Bible |
| PASSOVER | Jewish festival that commemorates the flight from Egypt described in the Bible's book of Exodus |
| MONSTERS | Grotesque or gigantic animals of folklore (8) |
| MINOTAUR | There's a sound in the air made by something big and fearsome (8) |
| TERRIFIC | Word meaning frightful first, later excellent, great, huge or intense (8) |
| CACHALOT | Something big in the drink — a drink swallowed by idiot |
| ENORMOUS | Huge or colossal (8) |
| SEAL | Wax signet traditionally embossed with a ring; an otter's footprint; or, an animal described in stories by Rowena Farre (4) |
| THEAPOCALYPSE | Destructive forces described in the Bible's Book Of Revelation, the Four Horsemen of ... (3,10) |
| ONELINERS | Mitch Hedberg's "Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus or just a really cool opotamus?" and "I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long," e.g. |
| DOGS | Animals described in novels by Dodie Smith; or, greyhound races (4) |
| STUPENDOUS | Word for something astounding, huge or perhaps so amazing or stunning it could leave one speechless with wonder or even shock (10) |
| MEGA | Enormous, huge or vast, like Earth's collective fauna of present or past (4) |
