| Ovine animal-keeper |
SHEPHERD |
| Pearl-bearing creature |
OYSTER |
| Punctuation mark |
COMMA |
| Records, in a diary, say |
ENTERS |
| Regions at the top and bottom of the world |
POLAR |
| Saudi capital |
RIYADH |
| Search for gold |
PROSPECT |
| Shorebird with bill curving upwards |
AVOCET |
| Short lengths |
INCHES |
| Small bed with high sides |
COT |
| Take to be the case |
ASSUME |
| The first group of modern homo sapiens |
CROMAGNON |
| The long grass on a golf course |
ROUGH |
| Timely, advantageous moment |
OPPORTUNE |
| Tiny piece |
PARTICLE |
| Torvill or Dean, say |
ICESKATER |
| Vista, view |
ASPECT |
| Ways out |
EXITS |