| BEARCAT | Informal name for the red panda |
| THREATENED | Like the red panda, blue whale and black rhino |
| ATALANTA | Mythological Greek huntress whose name is recalled in the scientific name for the red admiral (8) |
| CAPROIG | Mallorcan name for the red scorpion fish, a popular item on many restaurant menus on the Island (3,4) |
| REYNARD | Folk-name for the red fox (7) |
| MAGENTA | Another name for the red dye fuchsine (7) |
| ACTAEARUBRA | Latin name for the red baneberry! (6,5) |
| CORNISH | ___ chough, traditional name for the red-billed corvid Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax (7) |
| TALLHAT | One name for the red and white headgear accompanying a famous fictional cat's bow tie |
| GREBE | Biblical or dialect name for the red kite that coasts, drifts, floats, sails and soars gracefully on thermals (5) |
| FUNNYBONE | Informal name for the point on the elbow where the ulnar nerve passes near the surface (5,4) |
| DIXIE | Informal name for the Southern states of the US, from the title of a song written by Daniel Decatur Emmett in 1859 (5) |
| REEF | "The ____" is a local informal name for the Witwatersrand scarp |
| EURO | The ...., informal name for the UEFA European Football Championship (4) |
| DRAPE | Drop of DNA taken from red panda (5) |
| ASIA | Red panda's continent |
| PAW | Red panda's foot |
| BUCKYBALLS | First generated by Richard Smalley, Robert Curl and Harold Kroto in 1985, the informal name for the |
| KITTY | Informal name for the jack in bowls; a pool of money in poker; or, linked with "Hello" for a cat-like Japanese cartoon character (5) |
| TOPPER | Informal name for the hat depicted in miniature as one of the iconic charm-like pieces in Monopoly (6) |
