| BEASTOFBURDEN | An animal such as a donkey or ox used for carrying loads (5,2,6) |
| BEAST | --- of burden, animal such as a donkey or ox, used for carrying loads (5) |
| CROAKER | A grumbler or pessimist; slang word for a doctor; a fish also called a drum; or, an animal such as frog, raven or toad that utters a low hoarse sound (7) |
| BEAR | An animal such as the seal-eating heavy white "polar" species of Arctic regions, which is fancifully known collectively as an aurora or a celebration (4) |
| ASS | A vessel used for carrying loads (3) |
| CART | A strong vehicle with two or four wheels for carrying loads drawn by a horse |
| MOLLUSC | Typically building a protective shell around its soft body, an animal such as the"winding stair" wentletrap or the bubble-rafting violet sea snail whose genus, Janthina, derives from the Greek for "vi |
| PET | An animal such as a cat, dog or goldfish that lives with humans (3) |
| SCUT | Short erect tail of an animal such as a rabbit, hare or deer (4) |
| HAUNCH | Leg and loin of an animal, such as a deer, eaten as food (6) |
| SLEDGE | Sled or sleigh for carrying loads over ice or snow |
| RUNT | An apple core; an old tree stump; the smallest pig or "doll" in a litter; a stunted cow or ox; or, a withered cabbage stem (4) |
| MARSUPIAL | An animal such as the bandicoot, phalanger, or koala |
| RODENT | From the Latin meaning "to gnaw", an animal such as squirrel, mouse, guinea pig or chinchilla (6) |
| HOCK | The joint between the tarsal bones and tibia of an animal such as a horse (4) |
| OPOSSUM | An animal such as Didelphis marsupialis of North, Central and South America |
| OFFAL | Edible internal parts of an animal, such as the heart and liver (5) |
| BRAY | The characteristic loud harsh cry or heehaw of a donkey or mule; or, any discordant or grating sound (4) |
| EXODUS | Stray ox used for mass |
| ZEBU | Domesticated ox used in India and East Asia as a draught animal (4) |
