| THRUSH | Songbird with a spotted front (6) |
| OCELOT | Wildcat related to the margay and oncilla with a spotted and striped coat (6) |
| DAPPLE | Horse with a spotted coat |
| SERVAL | Long-legged African feline with a spotted coat |
| BLUECAP | A titmouse; a flame-like folkloric mine fairy; a one-year-old salmon with a spotted head; or, a Balmoral bonnet, hence a Shakespearean or colloquial term for a Scotsman (7) |
| LEOPARD | A large wild cat with a spotted coat (7) |
| SNOOPY | He is a spotted white beagle who is Charlie Brown's pet dog and appears in Peanuts cartoons. In this dog's fantasy life, he plays a World War I flying ace whose nemesis is the Red Baron. |
| APPALOOSA | A breed of horse with a spotted coat, originally from America (9) |
| CIVET | Catlike carnivore with a spotted coat |
| POLKADOTMATRIX | Mathematical array with a spotted pattern? |
| GENET | Carnivore with a spotted coat and ringed tail (5) |
| WAS | Lived with a spotted back (3) |
| DRONGO | Songbird with a forked tail, or a stupid person (6) |
| SIKA | Forest-dwelling deer of Japan and SE Asia with a spotted brown coat and white rump; Cervus nippon (4) |
| ORIOLE | Old World songbird with a long pointed bill and a mostly yellow-and-black plumage (6) |
| SHRIKE | A carnivorous songbird with a sharply hooked bill used to impale its prey on thorns (6) |
| MISTLETHRUSHES | Songbirds with a brown plumage and a spotted breast (6,8) |
| DIE | A dado, plinth or other cubical part of a pedestal; a stamp for impressing coins or medals; or, from "dare to give/play", a spotted cube thrown in games of chance (3) |
| BILLIARDS | Indoor game played with a red, white and a spotted white ball and a cue (9) |
| LADYBIRD | With a Latin designation that refers to the word "scarlet", a spotted beetle esteemed by gardeners, whose name was given to an imprint of children's books (8) |
