| RORQUAL | Whalebone whale also called a finback |
| ORCA | Whale also called a blackfish |
| BALUGA | Whale also called a sea canary, due to its highpitched call (6) |
| BALEEN | Species of whale also known as whalebone whales (6) |
| MINKE | --- whale, a type of small whalebone whale or rorqual, up to 10 metres long (5) |
| HUMPBACK | Large whalebone whale, Megaptera novaeangliae (8) |
| SEI | Whalebone whale |
| KRILL | Whalebone whale's food |
| ALLTHEPIES | Epithet "whale" also fitted subject of this enquiry (3,3,3,3,4) |
| WHOATE | Epithet "whale" also fitted subject of this enquiry (3,3,3,3,4) |
| RORQUALS | Finback whales |
| WHALESKALES | Leafy veggies for finbacks? |
| BUSK | A stay or strip of whalebone in a corset; the bodice so stiffened; or, a nautical word meaning "cruise about, tack, go from place to place, seek", hence "go about town performing" (4) |
| RIGHT | The whale of the family Balaenidae has a large head and is hunted as a source of whalebone and oil (5) |
| STAY | Guy rope bracing a ships mast; or, part of a corset that was historically constructed from whalebone (4) |
| HOOP | One of a series of whalebone or metal circlets forming the framework of a farthingale or crinoline (4) |
| AHAB | Character with a whalebone prosthesis |
| UMIAK | Boat sometimes built around a whalebone frame |
| STAYS | Historically, strips of whalebone or other material used to stiffen the bodice of a corset of the same name (5) |
| SCRIMSHAW | Carving on whalebone or walrus tusk (9) |
