| BULL | Also called the cub, or ground, shark, the ___ shark is blunt-snouted and grows to about 3.5 metres (11.5 feet), or a mature bovine male (4) |
| HEADINGTON | The "____ shark" is a roof sculpture in an Oxford suburb |
| GREEN | Knysna seahorses are ___ to brown in colour and grow to about 12cm in length |
| DECILITRE | Metric unit of volume equivalent to about 3.5 fl oz (9) |
| FLAT | Bed bugs are small, ___, reddish-brown insects that grow to about 5 mm in length. |
| MEG | Jason Statham sci-fi action thriller about a giant prehistoric shark, The ___ (3) |
| BROOM | Shrub, usually with yellow flowers, that is endemic to Mallorca and grows abundantly on the cliffs of the Sierra de Tramuntana (5) |
| DOGFISH | Name by which the small-spotted cat shark is also known in the UK (7) |
| BISCUITS | The cub is playing and it is given food (8) |
| GARLIC | Strong-smelling plant used to flavour many dishes, a major crop in Spain and widely used in Mallorca where it is cultivated and grows wild (6) |
| AKELA | Name derived from the wolf in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book stories for a Cub or Scout pack leader (5) |
| WHELP | Word for a cub or a puppy; or, contemptuously, a boy or a youth (5) |
| PAR | Village and fishing port about 3.5 miles east of St Austell on the south coast of Cornwall |
| UTAH | State in the western USA (pop about 3.5 million), nicknamed the Beehive State (4) |
| USURER | A shark is certain to be found in the city (6) |
| WHALE | The slow filter-feeding ... shark is the largest species of fish |
| FISH | The whale shark is the biggest one |
| MAKO | What shark is also called a blue pointer? (4) |
| OARFISH | Known as king of the herrings, a sea creature that grows to great lengths (7) |
| COTTONBUD | Don't be hostile to the cub with a cosmetic throwaway (6,3) |
