| 20 answers for: Zoological word, based on "mouse", for a rodent of... |
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| RANK | ANSWER | CLUE |
| MURID | Zoological word, based on "mouse", for a rodent of a very large family that includes the aforementioned beastie plus most species of gerbils, rats and voles (5) |
| WALTZINGMOUSE | Rodent of a breed that moves forward in small circles, rather than a straight line (8,5) |
| AVIFAUNA | Zoological word for the bird life inhabiting a particular region (8) |
| ENCEPHALON | Anatomical and zoological word for the brain (10) |
| COTTONRAT | A rodent of the genus Sigmodon |
| AGOUTI | A rodent of the genus Dasyprocta |
| CLICK | Kind of beetle, to come down on mouse |
| CLAN | Very large family |
| CHOOSY | Finicky Chinese circle with very large family ultimately (6) |
| EEKS | Squeals on mouse sightings |
| RUSE | Word, based on a hunting term for a detour, turn or other trick made by the quarry to escape the hounds, for a cunning artifice or stratagem (4) |
| TOD | Word, based on a name for a frog's porwiggle, for a jot; or, a little boy (3) |
| GAS | A word, based on the Greek for "chaos", for a state of matter, such as carbon dioxide, helium, nitrogen, ozone or xenon (3) |
| LEISURE | Word, based on the Latin for "be allowed" and subject of a poem by W H Davies, for one's free time (7) |
| SHEAVE | Word, based on "disc, pane of glass, slice of a loaf", for a pulley-wheel; or, an impure fleck in finished paper (6) |
| GAB | Word, based on slang for the mouth, for chatter, prattle or tittle-tattle one is said to have the gift of when fluent (3) |
| CLERISY | Word, based on "heritage", for the intelligentsia or literati as a class or group, as opposed to the laity (7) |
| COMPOSITE | A botanical word for a bloom in the family that includes the chrysanthemum, dahlia, daisy, dandelion and sunflower (9) |
| PIERID | From the Latin for "Muse", a butterfly in a family that includes the brimstone, cabbage-white, clouded yellow, cloudless sulphur, creamy marblewing and the orange-tip (6) |
| MONSAVENTINUS | One of seven in Rome, home of 16d, just south of a very large 8ac |
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