| WILDCAT | This untamed cat, which is native to Eurasia and Africa, is thought to have given rise to the domestic cat. |
| LITTLEOWL | Athene noctua, native to Eurasia and Africa (6,3) |
| FELT | Baize-like fabric whose former "carroting" method of construction was thought to have given rise to the phrase "mad as a hatter" (4) |
| THEEXPRESSIONOK | Van Buren is thought to have given rise to ___ |
| BROWNBEAR | Ursus arctos, common to Eurasia and North America |
| PHEASANT | Gallinaceous bird native to Eurasia |
| CARP | Common name for species of freshwater fish mostly native to Eurasia (4) |
| BROOM | Plant with vanilla-scented golden flowers whose Latin name planta genista is said to have given rise to the name of the Plantagenet dynasty, according to tradition (5) |
| LASERWORT | An old name for the herb silphium, whose heart-shaped seedpods are said to have given rise to the heart symbol as a representation of love (9) |
| ANIL | What is the common name for the shrub Indigofera suffruticosa, which is native to the subtropical and tropical Americas and yields indigo? (4) |
| MANUL | Another name for Pallas's cat, or the steppe cat, which is a small, long-haired cat native to deserts and rocky, mountainous regions from Tibet to Siberia. |
| BOBCAT | This North American cat, which is sometimes known as the bay lynx, is about the size of a domesticated cat. |
| RHINO | Creature that may have given rise to the unicorn myth |
| OLIVE | Abdul Rahman Katanani was born a Palestinian refugee in Lebanon, and his experience there continues to inform his art. Some of his recent work incorporates this kind of tree, which is native to the Me |
| ENDEMIC | That which is native to a country, or locality, is said to be what (7) |
| RIESLING | With some of the top varieties coming from South Australia's Clare and Eden valleys and the Grampians region of western Victoria, which grape is thought to have originated in Germany's Rhine River reg |
| PATMOS | Greek island in the Aegean Sea on which John the Apostle is thought to have written the Book of Revelation (6) |
| JAGUAR | Only living member of the Panthera genus which is native to the Americas |
| CUSTOM | Loudly swear at the cat, which is the normal procedure |
| VERMEER | Dutch master whose treatment of shadow and light in his paintings including Girl Interrupted at her Music, Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Astronomer and The Lacemaker is thought to have been aided by |
