| ASSONANT | Similar-sounding old name given to animal and insect |
| COMMANDEER | Appropriate name given to animal with butterfly on (10) |
| AVONMOUTH | A very old name given backchat in West Country port (9) |
| BORER | A name given to animals that pierce wood, rocks and the like (5) |
| VIRUS | Harmful agent to animals and computers (5) |
| SPCA | Voluntary organisation which provides help to animals and their owners (4) |
| BEDWETTING | Characteristic that, along with cruelty to animals and pyromania, is allegedly commonly present in serial killers |
| ANTELOPE | Animal and insect to run away together (8) |
| SEALANT | Marine animal and insect getting closer? (7) |
| ASSAILANT | Trouble between animal and insect, one will attack (9) |
| LITTERBUG | One who drops rubbish by young animals and insect (9) |
| BEWICK | Engraver and ornithologist noted for A History of British Birds and for having a species of swan named in his honour (6 48 African shrike with a similar-sounding name to Yogi Bear's little sidekick (6 |
| SCARECROW | Special attention given to animal making nest for rook: something to keep it off the crops (9) |
| DRAUGHTHORSE | Dose given to animal to make it a puller of heavy loads (7,5) |
| MEDALLION | Pendant award given to animal (9) |
| HOMONYM | Man and Shakespearean corporal's similar-sounding name |
| OPINIONPOLL | Sounding old and sanctimonious in turning on European in hearing |
| SEER | Man of vision, sounding old and withered (4) |
| KHOKHO | With a similar sounding name to that of a chocolaty drink, a traditional Indian version of the game "tag" (3,3) |
| OXIDANT | It gives a brown coat to animal, fish and insect (7) |
