| ACOUCHI | South American rodent closely related to the agouti, with a white-tipped tail (7) |
| LEMMING | Rodent closely related to the vole |
| WAXWING | Winter bird visitor to the UK with a yellow-tipped tail and a crested head (7) |
| BRUSH | Twiggy lopping of trees; a besom, broom or whisk; or, a white-tipped tail of a fox, named for its resemblance to an artist's traditional filbert, rigger or other paint applicator of the same name (5) |
| UTILITY | The agouti lit your imagination with its usefulness (7) |
| STERN | The white-tipped tail of the beagle or English foxhound; or, the aft-most part of a ship (5) |
| ERMINE | The stoat in northern regions, where it has a white winter coat with a black-tipped tail (6) |
| PACA | Animal akin to the agouti |
| STOAT | Small weasel-like mammal with a brown coat and black-tipped tail (5) |
| STOATS | Mustelids with black-tipped tails and, in cold climates in the winter, white "ermine" coats (6) |
| COYPU | An aquatic South American rodent, similar to a small beaver but with a rat-like tail (5) |
| RAPIDS | White-tipped parts of a flower? |
| CAVY | Small, South American rodent with a thickset body and short tail (4) |
| AGOUTI | A small South American rodent allied to the guinea-pig (6) |
| GUINEA | Regularly killed agoutis need an area to live in Africa |
| TUCOTUCO | Any burrowing South American rodent of the genus Ctenomys, named from the sound of its call (4-4) |
| TIGER | Some agouti, gerbil or other animal |
| PACAS | Agouti relatives |
| AGUTI | South American rodent with black-rumped and red-rumped varieties (5) |
| CHINCHILLA | What South American rodent was hunted almost to extinction for its fur? (10) |
