| PLANKTON | Whales' diet (8) |
| KRILL | Majority of a blue whale's diet |
| RORQUALS | Baleen whales in a group that includes minkes, humpbacks, razorbacks and blue whales (8) |
| CETOLOGY | Study of whales (8) |
| DOLPHINS | Small sociable whales (8) |
| INSCHOOL | Where whales learn to be whales |
| WASHABLE | Ahab's lost heart, surrounded by thrashing whales, adapted to foaming water? (8) |
| SINGULAR | Remarkable as fish may be, unlike whales or dolphins (8) |
| NARWHALS | Arctic toothed whales with black-spotted whitish skin and, in the males, a long spiral tusk (8) |
| CETACEAN | Relating to an order of aquatic mammals, including sperm whales, dolphins, etc (8) |
| SCOFIELD | Actor in A Man for All Seasons, the 1996 Arthur Miller film version of The Crucible and an adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's Why the Whales Came (8) |
| STRANDED | Whales have been known to be beached and abandoned (8) |
| BLOWHOLE | The nostril, paired or single, of whales, situated far back on the skull (8) |
| SPIRACLE | A respiratory opening, such as a blowhole in whales (8) |
| HARPOONS | Large pointed weapons with long ropes attached used to hunt whales (8) |
| PORPOISE | A common name for the group of toothed whales making up three genera: Phocoena, Phocoenoides, and Neophocaena. In North America the name is sometimes applied to dolphins. (8) |
| SAUROPOD | Giant reptile reportedly witnessed a group of whales (8) |
| FLIPPERS | The flat broad limbs of seals, whales, penguins and other aquatic animals (8) |
| PRODIGAL | Wasteful when one girl followed the whales round the far end of Dover (8) |
| MONSTERS | Whales |
