| KNUCKLES | Sonic the Hedgehog's echidna friend |
| SWALLOWTAILS | Devour Sonic the Hedgehog's fox friend? |
| TAILS | Sonic the Hedgehog's best friend (5) |
| ROBOTNIK | Surname of Sonic the Hedgehog's enemy in the video game series (8) |
| SEGAGENESIS | Sonic the Hedgehog's game system |
| SEGA | Sonic the Hedgehog's game company |
| MOCKTAILS | Make fun of Sonic the Hedgehog's sidekick? |
| BLUE | Sonic the Hedgehog's color |
| SHED | Keeps hedgehogs in the outhouse? (4) |
| PLATYPUS | One of the two egg-laying mammal types in existence, the other being the echidna; Ornithorhynchus anatinus (8) |
| IDRIS | Elba who voiced Knuckles the Echidna in "Sonic the Hedgehog 2" |
| SPINY | The echidna is the "____ anteater" |
| ANTEATER | The echidna is known as the spiny what (8) |
| CROQUET | Lawn ball game played with mallets and hoops or, if you're the Red Queen, hedgehogs |
| LONICERA | Latin name of the day- and nightscented twining flower honeysuckle, important for pollinating moths and in turn bats and hedgehogs (8) |
| STUMPS | Often providing a valuable habitat for woodpeckers, hibernating hedgehogs and toads, minibeasts, fungi, ferns, lichens and mosses, the remains of felled or fallen trees (6) |
| PRICKLES | Thorns; groups of hedgehogs; or, the spines of said animals (8) |
| SNOUTS | Word for animals' muzzles, birds' beaks or elephants' trunks originally, later for the more specific noses of beasts such as hedgehogs or pigs (6) |
| OTTERS | Array : hedgehogs : bevy : ___ |
| SPINES | Features of hedgehogs |
