| FROGS | Animals that don't drink water, but rather absorb it through their skin |
| WATER | Frogs don't drink ___ - they soak it into their body through their skin |
| LIE | Some do it through their teeth |
| SWEAT | Dogs do it through their paws |
| UNICORNS | Lunatic in US embracing one extreme of confabulation: animals that don't exist |
| TAME | Like animals that don't bite |
| NONMIGRANT | Like animals that don't roam |
| POISON | Substance that harms or kills people or animals if they swallow it or absorb it (6) |
| BLANCH | From French for "white", a word meaning to extract colour; to make celery pale through etiolation; or, to plunge almonds, tomatoes etc in boiling water to loosen their skin (6) |
| KIWIS | Fruits that can be eaten with their skin on, despite appearances |
| HORSE | You can lead a ___ to water, but you can't make it drink, proverb (5) |
| EEL | Animal that's catadromous, meaning it lives in fresh water but goes to sea to breed |
| FROG | Animal that "drinks" water through its skin |
| TRAINSET | Leaning back, try to drink water -- child's play, is it? (5,3) |
| INTO | Keen on scripture, I love to absorb it (4) |
| IMBIBE | Me? I use a bib to absorb it (6) |
| ORBITAL | Ring road for transport to absorb it all (7) |
| LOTION | Skin preparation? Simpleton absorbs it the wrong way (6) |
| SCARE | Make someone jump out of their skin in regulated races (5) |
| ISSUED | Turned out kids regularly with most of their skin (6) |
