| 3
| SOD |
Earth |
| 4
| SOIL |
Earth |
| 5
| ALIEN |
Not From Earth |
| 3
| SEA |
With 48-across, Underwater Creature That's Certainly Not A 48-across |
| 3
| ENT |
Tolkien Creature |
| 3
| ANT |
Creature Without Ears That Uses Vibrations To "hear" |
| 3
| ELM |
Stately Tree |
| 3
| EUR |
It Covers 6.8% Of The Earth's Land Area Abbr. |
| 3
| ORE |
Earth Deposit |
| 3
| ORB |
Earth, Poetically |
| 3
| ORC |
Fantasy Creature Whose Name Is An Anagram Of Another Fantasy Creature |
| 3
| JAN |
Middle Brady Family Daughter |
| 4
| UTAH |
Where To See License Plates That Say "greatest Snow On Earth" |
| 4
| ROEG |
Nicolas Who Directed "the Man Who Fell To Earth" |
| 4
| ALTO |
Middle Range |
| 4
| MEEK |
Like The Eventual Inheritors Of The Earth, In Matthew |
| 4
| WORM |
Sinuous Dance That Emulates A Creature |
| 4
| ORCA |
With 65-across, Underwater Creature That Actually Is A 65-across Despite A Common Misconception |
| 4
| SEAT |
Aisle, Window Or Middle, On A Plane |
| 4
| ARON |
Elvis Presley's Middle Name |
| 4
| TOAD |
"horned" Creature |
| 4
| ORBS |
Earth And Mars, E.g. |
| 4
| EDEN |
Home Of The Tree Of Knowledge |
| 5
| OCALA |
Florida City In The Middle Of "horse Country" |
| 5
| ASIAN |
Like Almost Two-thirds Of The Earth's Population |
| 5
| SHADE |
What A Tree Provides On A Hot, Sunny Day |
| 5
| JELLY |
With 6-across, Underwater Creature That's Not Actually A 6-across |
| 5
| KEATS |
Who Wrote "the Poetry Of Earth Is Never Dead" |
| 5
| ERNST |
John Steinbeck's Middle Name |
| 5
| PLATE |
Division Of The Earth's Crust |
| 5
| APHID |
Creature Also Known As A Greenfly |
| 6
| KAFTAN |
Garment Of The Middle East |
| 6
| OXYGEN |
Most Abundant Element In Earth's Crust |
| 6
| MANTIS |
With 38-across, Underwater Creature That's Not Actually A 38-across (nor A 36-across, For That Matter) |
| 6
| WYVERN |
Dragonlike Creature Of Fantasy |
| 6
| AMOEBA |
Simple Creature |
| 7
| PACIFIC |
It Covers More Than 30% Of The Earth's Surface |
| 7
| GORILLA |
Protected Creature In The Congo Basin |
| 7
| CAESURA |
Pause In The Middle Of A Line Of Poetry |
| 8
| ELECTRIC |
With 25-across, Underwater Creature That's Not Actually A 25-across |
| 8
| CARALARM |
One May Go Off In The Middle Of The Night |
| 8
| HALFREAD |
Like A Book With A Bookmark In The Middle, Say |
| 8
| CHEROKEE |
Like Sequoyah, For Whom The Tree Is Named |
| 15
| ABSENCEOFLEAVES |
Tree Feature In Winter? |
