| MORINGA | Tree of India, the Middle East, Africa, and South America, also called drumstick tree (7) |
| PEACOCK | The male of the national bird of India; the butterfly Aglais io; or, the novelist who wrote Headlong Hall, Nightmare Abbey and Crotchet Castle (7) |
| ANTBEAR | Large edentate mammal of Central and South America, also called the giant anteater (3,4) |
| SWAHILI | Major Bantu language of East Africa and the Congo |
| TRISTANDACUNHA | Remotest inhabited archipelago in the world, in the S Atlantic roughly halfway between South Africa and South America (7,2,5) |
| GONDWANA | An ancient supercontinent that broke up 180 million years ago, first into Africa and South America (8) |
| SANSKRIT | An ancient language of India, the language of Hinduism (8) |
| GIANT | - - - anteater, large mammal of Central and South America, also called ant bear (5) |
| KIKUYU | Creeping grass native to east Africa and widely used for lawns (6) |
| TAMANDUA | Arboreal edentate mammal of Central and South America also known as the lesser anteater (8) |
| TATOUAY | Creature of South America also called the greater naked-tailed armadillo (7) |
| OILBIRD | Nocturnal cave-dwelling bird of Trinidad and northern South America also known as the guacharo (7) |
| CARIBOU | Large deer of Arctic regions of North America also called a reindeer (7) |
| REBUTIA | Genus of small, colourful cacti from South America, also known as crown cacti (7) |
| HYRAXES | Rotund herbivorous mammals of Africa and South West Asia, resembling rodents (7) |
| CHEETAH | Large cat of Africa and South West Asia, with a black-spotted light brown coat (7) |
| DURBARS | In India the courts had absurd right to move around (7) |
| TOOTSIE | Film set in America, also set ___ strangely enough ___ around Irish capital (7) |
| PIKA | Any burrowing lagomorph mammal of the family Ochotonidae of Asia and North America, also called cony and mouse hare (4) |
| MANHUNTER | The Martian ---, a superhero in the Justice League of America also called J'onn J'onzz (9) |