| FERRETS | Animals the queen worries about (7) |
| PEANUTS | Having provided food for the animals, the girl turned in (7) |
| HEIFERS | Young animals the man fries after dressing (7) |
| REDDEER | Animals the German brought over ___ expensive, we hear (3,4) |
| ASSERTS | Says to give the animal the odd rest (7) |
| CHEETAH | For animal, the ache worsens. (7) |
| MUSKRAT | Animal the Ark, sailing, must have carried (7) |
| CARAMEL | A sweet animal the artist included in (7) |
| HAMSTER | Animal the first of many in a hurry beginning to run (7) |
| LIONSGATE | When it was revealed that the zoo was mistreating some of its animals, the resulting scandal was called... |
| OXYGEN | Essential gas for animals; the process of photosynthesis adds it to the atmosphere. (6) |
| STEP | Measure domesticated animals the wrong way (4) |
| HARASS | Torment two animals, the first tailless (6) |
| EPIGRAMS | Oriental farm animals - the types that'll make you laugh (8) |
| PIGS | Farm animals, the Mallorcan black variety is a protected species (4) |
| ZEBRA | African animal's the last character joining bear, perhaps |
| KRILL | From Norwegian for "small fish fry", a micro crustacean forming one of Earth's largest biomasses and constituting the principal food of the largest living animal, the blue whale (5) |
| OTTER | Animal the queen's extravagant over (5) |
| MALTA | Being semi-animal, the Terriers come to the island (5) |
| HIND | Female animal, the Queen's dog? (4) |
