| CAPYBARA | The world's largest rodent (8) |
| BEAVER | Semi-aquatic mammal, the world's largest rodent (6) |
| CAPYBARAS | The world's largest rodents, inhabiting riverbanks in Central and South America (9) |
| CAPYARA | Largest rodent in existence |
| GRONLAND | Known in Inuit as Kalaallit Nunaat, the Danish name for the world's largest island (that isn't a continent) (8) |
| BOTSWANA | Containing much of the Kalahari Desert, country which is home to the world's largest elephant population (8) |
| CULLINAN | The Great Star of Africa was cut from which diamond, the world's largest? (8) |
| AEROFLOT | Airline, founded 1923, which in the 1960s and 1970s was the world's largest (8) |
| SHANGHAI | Where is the world's largest cargo port? (8) |
| MARACANA | Rio stadium, one of the world's largest (8) |
| MCDONALD | Surname of the brothers who founded the world's largest burger chain |
| KOHINOOR | Forming part of the British Crown Jewels, one of the world's largest cut diamonds (3-1-4) |
| AUGUSTUS | Which Australian mountain is said to be the world's largest monolith (8) |
| BORDEAUX | Port city of SW France whose Miroir d'eau is the world's largest reflecting pool (8) |
| ARAPAIMA | Freshwater fish of tropical South America which is among the world's largest; also called pirarucu and paiche (8) |
| BULGARIA | Which country is the world's largest producer of rose oil? (8) |
| STRANGER | Name one of the world's largest gold nuggets, Welcome ... (8) |
| WAVERLEY | Named after a Scott work, the world's largest sea-going paddle steamer (8) |
| LUTHERAN | Which church claims to be the world's largest Protestant body? (8) |
| MAUNALOA | 9,600-cubic-mile volcano, the world's largest |
