| EQUID | Zoological name for an animal in the family that includes horses, donkeys, hinnies and zebras (5) |
| EQUUS | Genus of animals that includes horses, donkeys and zebras (5) |
| ASSES | Mules, hinnies and such |
| RHINO | Money for an animal in short (5) |
| EQUINE | Latin word for an animal in a genus that includes horses and donkeys (6) |
| IDAE | Zoological name suffix |
| LLAMA | Pack animal in the family that includes the alpaca, camel, guanaco and vicuna (5) |
| ALDER | Tree in the family that includes birches, hazels and hornbeams which is common in river and lakeside forests (5) |
| BEECH | Tree in the family that includes the oaks and the chestnuts (5) |
| TOTEM | In Native American traditions, general name for an animal or natural inanimate object believed to have spiritual significance (5) |
| OBOES | Instruments in the family that includes the cor anglais and bassoon (5) |
| BIRCH | With papery bark sometimes used for lighting campfires, a tree in the family that includes alders, hazels and hornbeams (5) |
| EPONA | Celtic goddess ('Great mare') of horses, donkeys and mules, widely worshipped in ancient Rome (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) |
| POLYP | An animal in the aquatic phylum Cnidaria is a medusa or a ____ |
| OKAPI | Animal in the family Giraffidae |
| HORSE | Drug an animal in the gym |
| GHANA | Some weigh an animal in the country |
