| LABRADORS | The French bards or wild dogs |
| WORDSMITH | Bard or author? (9) |
| SORBAPPLE | The fruit of the service, or wild service tree (4-5) |
| HAZELWORT | Plant of temperate Europe; known as wild ginger or wild spikenard (9) |
| TORPEDOES | Undermines pet or wild deer (9) |
| REDINGOTE | Notes about wild dog's coat |
| ESTRILDID | Weaver finch's topping nest (or wild nid?) |
| GREYHERON | Dull hen or wild bird (4, 5) |
| CROCODILE | Nile biter ice-cold or wild |
| RIOGRANDE | Flower I planted in garden or wild |
| TROW | Believe, to the Bard (or, pitch de ball?) |
| PETALS | Modified leaves or corolla segments forming the "bells" of campanulas, foxgloves, heather or wild hyacinths, the "falls" of irises or the "trumpets" of bindweed etc (6) |
| DUAN | Gaelic bard or poet's name for a canto, poem, song, stanza or verse (4) |
| SCOP | Anglo-Saxon bard or minstrel (4) |
| POET | Bard or minstrel |
| DINGOES | The row disappears with the wild dogs (7) |
| BELLS | Jingling devices attached to cats' collars to warn wildlife; instruments housed in campaniles or church towers; or, the blue flowers of campanulas or wild hyacinths (5) |
| SAVAGE | From "of the woods", a human being in a primitive, uncivilised or wild state; a barbarian or brute; a heraldic representation of a bearded seminaked man in a wreath of leaves; or, an enraged horse/vic |
| CHASSEUR | French word for "hunter", used in cookery to denote a cacciatore-like jus or relish of herbs, mushrooms, shallots and wine for game, poultry or wild fowl; or, historically, a liveried attendant of a h |
| SOCIAL | Wild dogs are extremely ___ and spend most of their time communicating and bonding in some form or another. |
