| EDENTATE | Mammal of an order which includes sloths, anteaters and armadillos (8) |
| EDENTAL | Pertaining to sloths, anteaters and armadillos (7) |
| EDEN | Like anteaters and armadillos, say, heading off to back garden? (8) |
| TATE | Like anteaters and armadillos, say, heading off to back garden? (8) |
| EDENTATA | Order of mammals which includes the anteaters and sloths (8) |
| RODENT | Mammal of the order which includes rats and mice (6) |
| ACARID | Small arachnid of the order which includes the ticks and mites (6) |
| STRIGES | The order which includes owls (7) |
| SINGULAR | Ruling as out of order, which is odd (8) |
| AARDWOLF | Animal is 50% anteater and 100% carnivore! (8) |
| SILLADAR | Maureen leaves armadillos for Indian irregular (8) |
| PRIMATE | Mammal of an order that includes apes, bushbabies, humans, lemurs, tarsiers, marmosets and monkeys ( |
| ECHIDNAS | Which Australian monotremes are called spiny anteaters (8) |
| MARSUPIAL | A mammal of an order whose members are born incompletely developed and are typically carried and suckled in a pouch on the mother's belly |
| RODENTS | Mammals of an order characterised by two continuously growing incisors in the upper and lower jaws |
| SAINT | It's an order which sometimes perpetuates his name |
| STANDATEASE | An order which doesn't require attention (5,2,4) |
| CISTERCIAN | Monk or nun belonging to an order which branched from the Benedictines (10) |
| SCALY | Like pangolins and armadillos |
| BOYD | William ___, author of novels Brazzaville Beach and Armadillo (4) |
