| First initial | Clue | Animal | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | Early humanoid found in the Southern Hemisphere | Australopithecus | 100%
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| B | Type of hammerhead, except with a word for headgear associated with Easter or babies, instead of "hammer" | Bonnethead shark | 80%
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| C | Night-butterfly associated with the things that we wear | Clothes moth | 80%
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| F | Echinoderm bearing the words for a bird's plume and a sun | Feather star | 80%
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| L | Large oceanic reptile, named after cow skin material used for clothing | Leatherback turtle | 80%
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| N | Red songbird whose name means a high-ranking Catholic official from the upper part of the map | Northern cardinal | 80%
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| P | A word for a big cat, often a black variant | Panther | 80%
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| Q | Band of musical apes led by Josh Homme, who recorded Rated R | Queens of the Stone Age | 80%
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| S | Usual name for smilodon, the extinct feline with a sword in its name | Sabre-toothed tiger | 80%
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| Y | Species of F, named after a colour | Yellow feather star | 80%
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| G | The biggest-ever ape, with a giant version of A's name | Gigantopithecus | 60%
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| J | Fish whose name can be assembled from the clues "Electric shock", "Leader" and "Bess's lover" | Jolthead Porgy | 60%
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| K | Fish whose name means "ruler of the [migratory fish]" | King-of-the-salmon | 60%
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| M | Small fish of the profound | Minnow of the deep | 60%
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| T | Fish whose name means a tri-dental cigarette smoker | Three-toothed puffer | 60%
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| W | Meteorological-sounding sea creature | Weatherfish | 60%
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| X | Bird named after an Amazon tributary, whose beak resembles the Devil's curved blade | Xingu scythebill | 60%
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| E | South American fish which appears to nibble mud | Eartheater | 40%
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| U | The extinct Atlas bear's scientific name, meaning "Arctic bear discovered by Crowther" | Ursus arctos crowtheri | 20%
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| D | Bird of prey whose named means "two teeth" and a wind-flying toy | Double-toothed kite | 0%
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| H | Hapless-sounding fish with a name mentioning a metal | Haplochromis thereuterion | 0%
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| I | Australian rainbowfish which is an anagram of "Rare in Haiti" | Iriatherina | 0%
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| O | Dragonfly genus; it is a slight variation on the name of the Greek goddess of wild animals, the equivalent of the Roman Diana | Orthemis | 0%
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| R | Soil-munching fish with a rounded scarlet ridge on it | Redhump eartheater | 0%
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| V | Varied and outwardly thematic-sounding monitor lizard | Varanus exanthematicus | 0%
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| Z | Amaryllis genus whose name starts with a word for a wind, then a sociable insect | Zephyranthes | 0%
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