| BLUESTONE | Variety of basalt found in Australia (9) |
| LAYABOUTS | Idle oafs you can carve out of basalt (9) |
| BALTICSEA | Fragments of basalt and ice water (6,3) |
| MELBOURNE | Old British prime minister found in Australia (9) |
| NAKEDLADY | Leafless pink orchid found in Australia and New Zealand (5,4) |
| TOADZILLA | Name for a mega-amphibian recently found in Australia |
| KOALABEAR | Kick-off before one with the French teddy, one found in Australia (5,4) |
| LOTUSBIRD | A jacana with a pink comb on the forehead, found in Australia |
| POLYGON | A "many-sided" closed shape observed in things from a crystal, honeycomb, snowflake or star fruit slice to a column of basalt rock, frozen puddle, plant stem crosssection or slither of cracked ice (7) |
| GIANTSCAUSEWAY | Two types of soldier totter across ground that's made of basalt pillars |
| LAVA | Source of basalt |
| CAUSEWAY | Giant's ___, area of basalt columns (8) |
| ALBATROSS | Basalt rocks encircling almost all of pink bird (9) |
| ALABASTER | Some of the finest stones are basalt conglomerate (9) |
| WHITSTONE | Any hard and compact form of rock, usually basalt (9) |
| ASTROLABE | Old instrument used to measure out basalt ore (9) |
| BAPTISMAL | Basalt imp, carved like a font (9) |
| MEGAPODE | There are a dozen species of these ground-living birds found in Australia and some Pacific Islands. One species in Tonga makes a nest of hot volcanic ash, which keeps its eggs warm. |
| KOALA | A type of small bear found in Australia |
| KANGAROO | Any large herbivorous marsupial of the family Macropodidae, found in Australia and New Guinea (8) |
