| BISHOPS | Prelates known collectively as an episcopacy; or, chesspieces associated with the development or strategy of fianchettoing (7) |
| BISHOP | Prelate known collectively as an episcopacy; mitre-topped chess piece; or, a type of mulled wine (6) |
| RETARD | Slow the development or progress of |
| IBNMUQLAH | Who is associated with the development of naskhi script, the most popular style of cursive in the Arab world? |
| HILLEL | Babylonian religious leader, associated with the development of the Mishnah (6) |
| MALAISE | A non-specific body discomfort not associated with the development of a disease |
| CANARY | Yellow finch known collectively as an aria or an opera and formerly employed as a colliery gas detector; a Madeira-like wine; or, an informal word for a jailbird or a soprano (6) |
| BEAR | An animal such as the seal-eating heavy white "polar" species of Arctic regions, which is fancifully known collectively as an aurora or a celebration (4) |
| AVOCET | Bird known collectively as an orchestra whose pied species is used as an emblem of the RSPB (6) |
| RAVEN | Known collectively as an unkindness, a buzzard-sized bird related to the crow,jackdaw, jay and rook; one of the avian guardians of the Tower Of London (5) |
| LARKS | Songbirds known collectively as an exaltation; or, people who prefer to get up early in the morning, as opposed to "night owls" (5) |
| MERLIN | Known collectively as an illusion and sometimes laying its eggs in an old crow's nest, a falcon or "pigeon hawk" of heather moorland that is the UK's smallest bird of prey (6) |
| HEDGEHOG | Known collectively as an array or a prickle, a mammal typically sleeping in a hibernaculum over the |
| ANTBEAR | Known collectively as an armoury, the termite-feeding nocturnal aardvark or "earth pig" (7) |
| SCENARIO | An outline or synopsis of the plot of a dramatic or literary work such as a film, novel or play; or, a postulated sequence of possible developments or events (8) |
| VOTERS | Body of people known collectively as an electorate or constituency (6) |
| ANTS | Insects known collectively as an army and living in a colony or formicary (4) |
| HEDGEHOGS | Known collectively as an array or a prickle, animals rescued by Tiggywinkles wildlife hospital (9) |
| GNU | "Wild beast" whose pluralised name is homophonous with "news", hence known collectively as an implausibility, among other things (3) |
| EPSON | Company that began with the development of a printing timer for the 1964 Olympics |
