| RETICULUM | Second of the four compartments of a ruminant mammal's stomach, located between the rumen and the omasum (9) |
| BACTERIA | Good ___ in the rumen helps digest the cow's food and provides protein for the cow |
| RUMINANT | Mammal whose stomach is divided into four compartments |
| STOMACH | Giraffes have a ___ with four compartments. |
| POD | Seedcase or husk containing garden peas or broad beans; a chilli; a school or social order of dolphins; or, one of the passenger compartments of a big wheel (3) |
| CELL | Word coined by Robert Hooke for the smallest unit of life; or, one of the compartments of a honeycomb (4) |
| TUSK | Second of the four albums by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac to top the UK charts, released in 1979 (4) |
| ENJOY | Journeymen remove rumen and have a bit of fun with it (5) |
| CELLS | What are the compartments of a honeycomb? (5) |
| EPCOT | Second of the four theme parks at Walt Disney World |
| MARK | Second of the four Gospel writers (4) |
| COW | Animal with a four-compartment stomach |
| OMASUM | Third compartment of a ruminant mammal's stomach, also known as the psalterium and manyplies (6) |
| RUMEN | First and largest compartment of a ruminant mammal's stomach, also known as the paunch (5) |
| ABOMASUM | Fourth compartment of a ruminant mammal's stomach, in which rennet is produced (8) |
| AISLE | A wing of a church separated from the nave by piers; a passageway in a supermarket or between rows of seats; or, a compartment of a timber-framed barn divided from the main body of the building by pos |
| PANEL | A saddlecloth; a slip of parchment listing jurors' names, hence a jury; a compartment of a door; a board for an oil painting; or, a section of a fence (5) |
| AEGEAN | ___ Sea, arm of the Mediterranean located between the Greek peninsula to the west and Turkey to the east (6) |
| JEJUNUM | Second part of the small intestine, located between the duodenum and the ileum (7) |
| RENNIN | Milk- curdling enzyme occurring in the gastric juice of young ruminant mammals and widely used in the production of cheese; also called chymosin (6) |
