| AWALK | Simple having skinned minke whale at mismanaged zoo? (1,4,2,3,4) |
| INTHEPARK | Simple having skinned minke whale at mismanaged zoo? (1,4,2,3,4) |
| ROSSSEA | Ocean region that is home to Antarctic minke whale, crabeater seal and leopard seal (4,3) |
| SHAMU | Killer whale at SeaWorld |
| LAW | Rule that he must leave whale at sea (3) |
| WEALTH | Large amount, halibut ultimately consumed by whale at sea |
| ORCS | Malevolent characters cut tail off whale at prow of ship? |
| RORQUAL | Species of baleen whale - blue, minke or humpback for example (7) |
| SEI | One of the whale species, in addition to minke, Bryde's and sperm whales, that Japan intends to hunt |
| WHALE | Humpback, minke or Moby Dick |
| SPOUTERS | Whales, at times |
| BALEEN | Whalebone through which a humpback, minke, rorqual or other such cetacean filters plankton (6) |
| WHALES | Humpbacks or minkes |
| RORQUALS | Baleen whales in a group that includes minkes, humpbacks, razorbacks and blue whales (8) |
| LOOSECANNON | Unpredictable person mismanaged salon once at work (5,6) |
| ARID | Mismanaged raid - quite fruitless (4) |
| SCREECH | Is it heard coming from mismanaged creches? (7) |
| COLONY | Settlement firm only mismanaged |
| MALFORMED | Mismanaged model farm is in bad shape |
| BUNGLED | Bribe was first mismanaged |