| First initial | Clue | Animal | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | Wild donkey | Ass | 100%
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| B | Fish with the name of a 4-stringed type of guitar | Bass | 82%
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| C | Flightless Australian bird which can attack humans | Cassowary | 64%
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| G | Insect similar to a cricket; known as locusts when they swarm | Grasshopper | 64%
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| D | Pygmy species of C, above | Dwarf cassowary | 36%
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| L | Species of B with a big eating-hole | Largemouth Bass | 36%
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| R | Species of G named after a pretty arc of refracted light in the sky | Rainbow Grasshopper | 36%
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| S | Common name for oceanic types of B | Sea bass | 36%
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| E | Four-legged reptile of oriental areas, named after window pane material | Eastern Glass Lizard | 27%
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| O | Type of B named after the hills of Arkansas & Missouri | Ozark Bass | 27%
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| P | Another kind of B, bearing the name of a large, fancy-tailed bird | Peacock bass | 27%
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| Y | Sun-coloured species of B | Yellow bass | 27%
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| K | Long-tailed game bird whose first name can be defined in two parts, by the clues "Ex-Dutch PM Wim" and "Scots term for girl" | Koklass pheasant | 18%
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| N | Species of C from New Guinea, ie the area nearer the top of maps | Northern cassowary | 18%
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| Q | Genus of eel; its name ends in an abbreviation for infrared, then a word for large flightless birds | Quassiremus | 18%
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| W | Fish with a silent W, a word which comes from Cornish | Wrasse | 18%
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| F | Flying creature, a lover of lawns or fields, with its tail spread out | Fan-tailed grassbird | 9%
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| I | Relative of F, another avian twitterer associated with lawn plants, from south Asia | Indian grassbird | 9%
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| M | Subspecies of A, from the Gobi Desert area | Mongolian wild ass | 9%
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| T | Another type of F, with a word for "brown", like a certain British owl | Tawny grassbird | 9%
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| U | Fish genus, sounding like a device for viewing a certain planet | Uranoscopus | 9%
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| Z | Striped species of W | Zebra wrasse | 9%
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| H | Critically endangered Bolivian bird whose name ends in a word for a pig | Horned curassow | 0%
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| J | Casual name sometimes used for a long-extinct beaver-like animal | Jurassic beaver | 0%
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| V | Bird with a curved beak, named after a Dutchman | Van Hasselt's sunbird | 0%
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| X | "Foreign" + "burn" + "chopping tool" + "Crass-sounding Roman" give clues to this Congo basin fish's name | Xenocharax crassus | 0%
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