| NOCTULE | The largest species of bat in the UK (7) |
| PIPISTRELLE | The smallest type of bat in Britain (11) |
| BLUEFIN | Thunnus thynnus, formerly known as the tunny; the largest species of tuna (7) |
| EMPEROR | The largest species of penguin commonly found in Antarctica (7) |
| REDDEER | Depicted in Edwin Landseer's The Monarch of the Glen, the UK's largest species of land-mammal (3,4) |
| LIZARDS | Animals of which Komodo dragons are the largest species (7) |
| TOILETS | "There's bats in the belfry, the windows are jammed, the_ ___ ain't healthy", from Carter USM's "Sheriff Fatman" (7) |
| OPENERS | Bats in the kitchen (7) |
| ELEPHANT | In 1990, the remains of a Steppe Mammoth, Mammuthus Trogontherii, the largest species of ... ever to have lived, were discovered at West Runton (8) |
| KODIAK | One of the largest species of brown bear, the _ bear (6) |
| ETCHING | Bats in the MCG, lacking marks for artistic impression |
| LESSERHORSESHOE | Species of bat found in the UK that is about the size of a plum (6,9) |
| WHALE | The slow filter-feeding ... shark is the largest species of fish |
| ELK | One of the largest species of deer |
| BANDICOOT | The largest species of rat found in India and Sri Lanka (9) |
| TIGER | The largest species of the cat family (5) |
| HATBAND | Writing about movement of bat, one circling overhead (7) |
| TRAPPED | Bottom edge of bat hit, caught (7) |
| MOA | Dinornus Robustus was one of the largest species of this extinct New Zealand flightless bird |
| ORCA | What name is given to the largest species of oceanic dolphin, also known as the killer whale? (4) |
