| BADGERS | Traditionally known as brocks and living in setts, Britain's largest land carnivores (7) |
| POLAR | The ___ bear, Ursus maritimus, is one of the world's largest land carnivores (5) |
| POLARBEARS | Largest land carnivores |
| PASSTO | Try to hit, as Brock Purdy might |
| BEAR | Largest land carnivore |
| POLARBEAR | Largest land carnivore |
| MOROCCO | African country traditionally known as an exporter of fine leather (7) |
| GREYHEN | Female of a game bird with display grounds traditionally known as leks (4,3) |
| REDDEER | This ruminant is Britain's largest land mammal (3,4) |
| WASSAIL | Toast to which one would historically reply "drink-hail"; or, mulled punch such as smoking bishop or that traditionally known at Oxford University as "swig" (7) |
| GANNETS | Britain's largest marine birds, with long necks and bills, white plumage and dark wing tips (7) |
| SETTLED | Brock's home was first to be established (7) |
| BRUMMIE | Person from Britain's largest and most populous city outside London (7) |
| CHEDDAR | Containing Britain's largest gorge and part of the Strawberry Line cycle route, village on the edge of the Somerset Levels where the cheese of the same name originates (7) |
| FENRAFT | One of Britain's largest arachnids, found in wetlands - parents differ, oddly (3,4,6) |
| TRIUMPH | By 1918, which company had become Britain's largest manufacturer of motorcycles? (7) |
| ROEDEER | Britain's largest wild land mammal (3,4) |
| BABYSIT | Parent briefly next to opening of sett, feeding badger (7) |
| ROOTLET | What badgers do close to sett to find small tuber (7) |
| TARTAN | Cloth with a plaid-like pattern traditionally known as a sett (6) |
