| HIPPOS | "Poop-opotamus" romance: During their mating season, these heavyweight honchos spin their tails to hurl their turds at the objects of affection |
| SHED | Iguanas can ___ their tails to escape predators |
| OUTLIERS | Rock groups find romance during tours abroad (8) |
| CARTHORSES | These heavyweights experienced harrowing times (10) |
| KILKENNY | ___ cats, according to legend, these two cats fought until only their tails were left (8) |
| FEATHERS | Each year, after the mating season, the peacocks moult and lose their eye ___ on the tail |
| THE | A hotel is in utter chaos during deer mating season (3,3) |
| RUT | A hotel is in utter chaos during deer mating season (3,3) |
| AGNEW | Successor to H.H.H. |
| PORTSMOUTH | When rambling, sort out map (A to H) to show city (10) |
| BRAZILIAN | Style of 22, trimming tails to nail lizard by return (9) |
| UNNATURAL | Affected return of mating season during annual manoeuvres (9) |
| QUAIL | This bird's young remain with their parents during their first summer. They eat mainly seeds and berries but also leaves, roots, and some insects. Their flesh is considered a delicacy, as are their eg |
| AES | Loser to H.C.H. |
| LARKIN | Family central to H. E. Bates' books including The Darling Buds of May and Oh! To be in England (6) |
| OVERDRESS | Wear tails to tea, say |
| NYLON | Pressmen, very formal, go in tails to get material (5) |
| HIRE | Rent his red tails to hell and gone (4) |
| ERNE | Rubbernecker loses heads and tails to sea eagle (4) |
| REDDEAN | Anglican Christian Marxist, the Very Reverend Hewlett Johnson, whose sympathy with the USSR led to h |
