| THORNS | Flexible lips and super-long tongues help the Giraffe to eat around the acacia's sharp ___. |
| MENIAL | The servant gets something to eat around the North Island (6) |
| ODIE | Funny-pages pooch with a super-long tongue |
| IMPEL | You may have to force chimp, elephant and giraffe to go inside (5) |
| SPATE | To cook eats around the piano is too much! (5) |
| AGREESTO | Calls truce, changing 'giraffes' to 'deer' (6,2,6) |
| DIFFER | Calls truce, changing 'giraffes' to 'deer' (6,2,6) |
| CROSSINDEX | Refer to this to see if they'll be displeased to eat around ten (5-5) |
| WOODPECKER | This bird feeds by pecking into tree bark with its sharp beak and then inserting its long tongue into the hole to extract insects living in the wood. These birds also nest in holes in trees. |
| DIVINE | Wonderful to eat around four (6) |
| CAFETERIA | Somewhere to eat around village event with retro atmosphere (9) |
| CHIPMUNK | Animal portion to eat around lunchtime? (8) |
| RECIPE | Directions for making dish ready to eat around City |
| MIMOSA | Common name of an Australian shrub in the acacia family that grows around the French Riviera in areas such as Tanneron and Sainte-Maxime (6) |
| PHYLLODE | Flattened leafstalk (petiole) that resembles and functions as a leaf, as on trees and shrubs of the Acacia genus (8) |
| OPOPANAX | Old type of music artist - the first to find fault endlessly with mystery man producing The Acacia Tree (8) |
| EMBOUCHURE | The application, by a wind instrument player, of their lips and other parts of the mouth |
| HARMONICA | A small, rectangular wind instrument held against the lips and moved from side to side (9) |
| GUMARABIC | Substance obtained from acacias used in production of inks and food thickeners (3,6) |
| WATER | Cows drink about a bathtub full of ___ and eat around 18kgs of food a day. |
