| COWER | Quail as female of the species confronts monarch (5) |
| FLINCH | Quail as bird circled lake (6) |
| ASHEN | ... very pale, like the female of the species (5) |
| GNOME | Name one of the species of diminutive beings said to inhabit the interior of the earth (5) |
| GEESE | Birds of the duck family, the Greylag, Whitefronted and Bean of the species arrive in Mallorca in the winter, usually in family groups (5) |
| TOOTHANDNAIL | "But the she-bear thus acoosted rends the peasant ___ _ _, for the female of the species is more deadly than the male": Rudyard Kipling (5,3,4) |
| EGRET | White heron, the Little of the species is a frequent bird of passage in Mallorca and is commonly seen in flocks on the island (5) |
| CEDAR | - of Lebanon; one of the species of tree commonly found in a Capability Brown landscape (5) |
| KIPLING | Author of Kim and Gunga Din who wrote the line: "For the female of the species is more deadly than t |
| DOE | Perform the final bit for the female of the species |
| ASTOR | Minister lacking power as female parliamentarian |
| WOMYN | Persons who identify as female, in an alternative spelling |
| SHREW | Small, mouse-like creature, the Balearic variety has long been extinct but Dwarf members of the species have been spotted in Mallorca's Tramuntana mountain range (5) |
| DWARF | Meaning of the species name 'nana' (5) |
| ASPEN | Tree of the species Populus tremula (5) |
| HUMAN | Member of the species Homo sapiens |
| MARE | Damage first equine female of the species |
| DOODLE | Idly draw female of the species to embrace old style (6) |
| LIONESS | Female of the species Panthera leo (7) |
| SHES | Females of the species |
