| UGLYFIVE | The ___, children's book about the wildebeest, warthog, spotted hyena, lappetfaced vulture and marabou stork (4,4) |
| MICHAELPARKINSON | Interviewer who wrote a series of children's books about The Woofits |
| GNUS | Prey of spotted hyenas |
| LITTLEPRINCE | The ___ children's book written by Antoine de Saint-Exupery about a boy who leaves his tiny planet to travel the universe: 2 wds. |
| TWITS | The ___, children's book by Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake (5) |
| GRUFFALO | The ____, children's book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler (8) |
| BROOM | Room on the ___ (children's book by Julia Donaldson about a generous witch) |
| SPY | "Harriet the ___" (children's book) |
| SNOWMAN | The ___, children's book by Raymond Briggs (7) |
| COBRA | A vulture and what creature are depicted on the gold mask of Tutankhamen's mummy? (5) |
| BEANO | The ___, children's comic first printed in 1938, with characters including Dennis the Menace, Minnie the Minx, and the Bash Street Kids (5) |
| TIMON | The Lion King meerkat and warthog duo, ___ and Pumbaa (5) |
| MEERKAT | The Lion King characters Timon and Pumbaa are a ____ and warthog |
| WYVERN | Wings of vulture and of raven under those of weighty mythological flier |
| MAGICROUNDABOUT | The ____, children's TV series that included a snail Brian and jack-in-the-box Zebedee (5,10) |
| HEIDI | Children's book about a girl in the Swiss Alps |
| OLDYELLER | 1956 children's book about a boy and his dog, later filmed by Walt Disney (3,6) |
| STREGANONA | Children's book about a witch and her magical pasta pot |
| GNU | Either of two antelopes of Africa also called the wildebeest (3) |
| CHRIS | Pop Vulture and Max Media cartoonist, ... Knox |