| EQUID | Zoological name for an animal in the family that includes horses and zebras (5) |
| EQUINE | Latin word for an animal in a genus that includes horses and donkeys (6) |
| MURID | Zoological name for a brown rat, house mouse or related gnawing rodent that, despite being diminutive, light, slight and timorous with a tiny bite, is likely to give a suriphobe a fright (5) |
| EQUINES | Horses and zebras |
| RHINOS | Informal word for horn-nosed perissodactyls whose closest relatives include horses and tapirs (6) |
| RHINO | Money for an animal in short (5) |
| ONAGERS | Asses, old horse and zebras occasionally (7) |
| TEENAGERS | Youngsters needing support on horse and zebras, regularly (9) |
| SMACKERS | Horse and zebras periodically escaping pounds |
| IDAE | Zoological name suffix |
| LLAMA | Pack animal in the family that includes the alpaca, camel, guanaco and vicuna (5) |
| EQUUS | Genus of animals that includes horses, donkeys and zebras (5) |
| BEECH | Tree in the family that includes the oaks and the chestnuts (5) |
| ALDER | Tree in the family that includes birches, hazels and hornbeams which is common in river and lakeside forests (5) |
| OBOES | Instruments in the family that includes the cor anglais and bassoon (5) |
| TOTEM | In Native American traditions, general name for an animal or natural inanimate object believed to have spiritual significance (5) |
| BIRCH | With papery bark sometimes used for lighting campfires, a tree in the family that includes alders, hazels and hornbeams (5) |
| ROSES | With a national collection of rambling varieties at Moor Wood in Gloucestershire, flowers in the family that includes apples, meadowsweet, pears, quinces and strawberries (5) |
| HYENA | High sounding name for an animal (5) |
| CRATE | Notes there's an animal in the container (5) |
