| UNGULATES | Zoological term for hoofed animals, even-toed or odd-toed (9) |
| TAPIR | Device supplying water I run for hoofed animal (5) |
| STOCKSTILL | Farm animals even now are motionless (5-5) |
| ECTOTHERM | Zoological term for any cold-blooded animal (9) |
| RUMINANTS | They contemplate even-toed mammals (9) |
| MOUSEDEER | Any even-toed ungulate mammal of the family Tragulidae, also called chevrotain (5,4) |
| ECCENTRIC | Person with an unusual or odd personality (9) |
| STRANGEST | Most unusual or odd (9) |
| SHORTCAKE | Biscuit or odd bits of tuck put in milky drink |
| UNGULATE | Hoofed mammal, either odd-toed (the perissodactyls) or even-toed (the artiodactyls) (8) |
| PACHYDERM | Large hoofed animal with a very thick skin (9) |
| AMNIOTE | Zoological term for a reptile, bird or mammal (7) |
| ASCIDIAN | From "wineskin, leather bag", a zoological term for a sea grape, sea peach, sea tulip or other sea squirt, characterised by its outer "tunic" and ejection of water (8) |
| CANID | Latin-derived zoological term for a dog, fox, jackal, wolf or any of their barking howling relatives (5) |
| ISOPOD | Zoological term for a crustacean like a woodlouse |
| EQUIDS | Zoological term for horses and their relatives including donkeys (6) |
| OVA | Zoological term for eggs |
| SLOTH | A collective noun for a group of bears; one of the seven deadly sins; or, a two-toed or three-toed animal (5) |
| QUIZ | Word first for an eccentric or odd-looking person or thing, later a test of knowledge for fun or competition (4) |
| EUSOCIAL | Zoological term used to denote a level of organisation among ants, bees or other organisms whose workers provide for the reproductive individuals of their group (8) |
