| QUAGGA | Zebra subspecies that became extinct in the 1880s |
| GREATAUK | Large flightless bird that became extinct in the 1840s (5,3) |
| HEATHHEN | A bird of the grouse family in North America that became extinct in 1932 (5,3) |
| PASSENGERPIGEON | North American bird which once numbered in the billions but became extinct in the early 1900s (9.6) |
| AUROCHS | Large predecessor of modern cattle, Bos primigenius, which became extinct in the early 1600s (7) |
| BUSTARD | The great ____, a chalk downland bird in southern England, became extinct in 1832, and was reintroduced on Salisbury Plain in 2003 |
| DODO | It became extinct in 1681 |
| GOLDENFROG | The National Zoo is one of several facilities worldwide reviving the population of this striking-looking Panamanian jumper, now thought to be extinct in the wild |
| MAHDI | Muhammad Ahmad assumed this title of the Islamic promised redeemer in his campaign to liberate the Sudan in the 1880s |
| MOA | Some bemoan bird that became extinct |
| APPLETART | Dessert such as that created at the Hotel Tatin in the 1880s |
| PEREDAVIDSDEER | Large animal, a native of China but now extinct in the wild, also called the elaphure (4,6,4) |
| LABRADORDUCK | North America... Atlantic coast waterfowl that went extinct in the 1870s: 2 wds. |
| GOSHAWK | Bird of prey once almost extinct in the UK (7) |
| AVOCET | An oystercatcher-sized pied wader once extinct in the UK (6) |
| DINOSAUR | Type of reptile that became extinct about 65,000,000 years ago (8) |
| KHARTOUM | Sudanese city where General Gordon met a sticky end in the 1880s at the hand of the Mahdi and his fo |
| MILK | One of the first substances treated by Louis Pasteur in his pioneering process of pasteurisation in the 1880s (4) |
| CAR | *Carl Benz invented the first practical modern one in the 1880s |
| STELLALAND | Short-lived Boer republic in the 1880s located in Bechuanaland (10) |