| TAHR | Teacher, oddly, is a creature with hair reaching the knees |
| THELOVEBOA | Dramedy set on a luxury cruise ship ... whose captain is a creature with a romantic squeeze? |
| BERMUDASHORTS | Trousers almost reaching the knee (7,6) |
| BELLADONNA | Instrument for a University teacher oddly near nightshade (10) |
| FROG | A spiky device for floristry; an ornamental loop fastening used with a braided/tasselled button/olivet; a creature with a croak amplified by means of its balloon-like vocal sac; or, a belt strap for a |
| TEARGAS | From the air, glass oddly is a chemical weapon (4,3) |
| DRIVEIN | What goes to the heart after 27, oddly, is a kind of cinema (5-2) |
| LOADEDQUESTION | Rich adventure I go on, oddly, is a kind of trap |
| ANTE | One tree oddly is a pot plant (4) |
| FLASHINTHEPAN | Dish maintaining thin shape, oddly, is a briefly successful thing (5,2,3,3) |
| MASSEUR | Erasmus, oddly, is a manipulator (7) |
| CENTAUR | (Greek myth) a creature with the head, arms, torso of a man and the body and legs of a horse |
| MERMAID | In folklore, a creature with the head and torso of a woman and the tail of a fish (7) |
| OWL | Boswell regularly is a creature of the night (3) |
| COATI | Fur industry's origin is a creature from the Americas (5) |
| SEAURCHIN | Hear! See! Ragamuffin is a creature found in the sea (3,6) |
| HOOK | The part of a story that catches you before it reels you in, as if you were a creature with gills and a dorsal fin (4) |
| CRUSTACEAN | A curse can't upset a creature with a tough exterior (10) |
| VERTEBRATE | A creature with a spine, such as a mammal, bird, reptile or fish (10) |
| IBIS | In the same place lives a creature with long legs (4) |
