| STORED | Did a squirrel job |
| CAGE | Word for a hollow that came to mean a basket for fowls, a bottle-holder, a coop, a corf, a hutch, a netted goal, a prison cell or a squirrel's drey (4) |
| TUFT | Word with a bunch of meanings including a beard, a feathery crest, a grassy clump, a loop in a rug, a tassel or a wisp of a squirrel's fluffy tail/ear (4) |
| BUN | Dialect for a dry stalk; a chignon or cockernony; a bread roll; a little cake with currants or cream; a pet name for rabbit or a squirrel; or, a hare's scut (3) |
| GATHERER | Known colloquially as a magpie or a squirrel, a collector, harvester or hoarder; or, a gaffer who picks up hot glass on a punty prior to blowing (8) |
| TWIG | Small branch used for kindling, propping a top-heavy hyacinth in a pot or to form a drey by a squirrel (4) |
| NUT | If a squirrel is having a hard time eating a ___, he will sometimes gnaw a little hole in it to help him crack it |
| ANIMAL | A squirrel is a brown ___ with a bushy tail that likes to scamper through a city park |
| DRAY | A cart pulled by a draught horse; a timber sledge; or, the uncommon spelling for a squirrel's nest (4) |
| PINEMARTEN | It looks like a squirrel with a coat like a stoat: permanent in endless evolution. (4,6) |
| GNAW | Chew, like a squirrel on a nut |
| AHARDNUTTOCRACK | A difficult problem to deal with, for a squirrel? |
| THIEF | Hold it right there!: It's what a squirrel might call another squirrel if he catches him stealing his acorns |
| NUTS | Bushy-tailed tricksters: When a squirrel digs a hole, pretends to bury his acorn in it and then buries it another hole, it drives his fellow squirrels ___ |
| PRAIRIEDOG | Animal that's more akin to a squirrel than a canine, despite its name |
| ACORN | A small hard growth is a squirrel's treat (5) |
| SCOOTUP | Climb like a squirrel |
| GNAWS | Eats like a squirrel |
| DORA | She has a squirrel friend named Tico |
| INANUTSHELL | Briefly where a squirrel finds food |
