| CARDINAL | You'll recognize the male of this songbird by its bright red color |
| REDSTART | Identifiable by its bright orange tail, a robin-sized chat visiting the UK in the summer (8) |
| TITLED | Named songbird by the French department (6) |
| JAPONICA | Japanese quince, cultivated for its bright red flowers and edible yellow fruit; family Rosaceae (8) |
| SCARLET | Bright red color 7 little words |
| PINOAK | It's bright red in autumn |
| GREENFINCH | In Malta, this songbird is thought of as prestigious, and domesticated |
| EMPEROR | The male of this type of regal-looking penguin incubates his mate's eggs for 60 days, eating nothing and losing as much as 45% of his body weight. The chick spends the first two months of its life on |
| SWAN | Cob is the male of this bird (4) |
| GOLDENEYE | The male of this duck has a dark head with a white cheek patch |
| CINNABAR | Mineral known as vermilion when used as a pigment; or, the bright red colour of this after which a day-flying moth derives its name (8) |
| GIANTPANDA | Xing Er, a 7-year-old male of this species, escaped his enclosure at the Copenhagen Zoo on June 8; staff captured him by using a tranquilizer dart |
| GROUSE | The black male of this game bird displays in a lek (6) |
| IRON | It gives the Red Planet its red color |
| CHUCKNORRIS | Actor who supposedly "destroyed the periodic table, because he only recognizes the element of surpri |
| GREENLIZARD | Males of this eastern European reptile have a blue throat |
| NARWHAL | Males of this Arctic sea mammal have a spirally twisted tusk |
| VERNA | The spring gentian, Gentiana - - - - -, grown for its bright blue flowers (5) |
| BANANA | Pepper that's often pickled, named for its bright yellow color |
| ONTO | Recognize the intentions of |
