Creatures quiz Thursday May 5th 2011

[Vimto]

I am doing a most interesting quiz and have come across a few stumbling blocks which I would appreciate help with. The clues are cryptic and all the answers contain the name of a creature. For example: A goon (5.8.)-------Spike Milligan. ..... "pike".
10: Short-legged white dog (8.7.).
14: Mentioned on the shipping forecast (6.4.).
16: Composed by Schubert (5.7.).
18: Obvious (2.5.2.1.9.).
20: A seaweed (12).
There are others which I feel I have the correct answer but can't see a creature in them:
3: Making a special effort to please (7.4.9.). I thought of, "Bending over backwards"; "Leaning over backwards"; "Falling over backwards" which has "ling"(a fish) in it but I already have that word elsewhere in the quiz.in 21: An Indian tea (10)-- "Darjeeling" .
30: C.P.S.(5.11.7.) which surely must be "Crown Prosecution Service" but where's the creature? A "rose" is a flower!
37: Nacre (6.2.5.) which again, must be "Mother of Pearl" but where's the creature? Surely one can't call a "pear" a creature.
Any help would be most welcome.

[boxtops]

14 DOGger Bank

[mike11111]

14 DOGger Bank
16 TROUT Quintet
18 As plain as a PIKEstaff

[boxtops]

37 I'd agreed Mother of Pearl, but perhaps it's a tenuous clue - mother of pearl grows inside an Oyster, which is a creature...?

[bibblebub]

16 TROUT quintet
18 as plain as a PIKEstaff

[beejay1124]

14 dogger bank

[bibblebub]

37 MOTHer of Pearl

[bibblebub]

30 CROWn prosecution service

[bibblebub]

3 benDING Over backwards

[boxtops]

well done bibble, with the MOTH.

[mike11111]

3 DarjEELing contains Eel, so maybe you are right with Ling for the other one.

[boxtops]

10 must be something TERRIER but I'm not good with dog breeds

[bibblebub]

10 SEALyham terrier

[boxtops]

bibble, how can you be so Lert at this hour...? ;-)

[bibblebub]

your suggestion for terrier provided the key for that clue

[boxtops]

;-)

[mike11111]

Seems as if PIKE appears in two clues. Is that right?

[Vimto]

Hello everyone again. Many thanks for all your help. I feel suitably humbled by your cleverness, I have managed No. 20 which is bladderwrack (adder)
Mike, pike was in the example so can excuse repetition.
There used to be a TV quiz which had words within words and I was pretty useless at that also so I don't think my brain sees the same things. I recall there was one word always coming up with zillions of letters in it which started floccinochi.........etc.etc. I think the show finally ran out of steam because of this word.
Again, thanks to all.

[mike11111]

Floccinaucinihilipilification. the act of estimating as worthless, invented by Shakespeare in Love's Labour' Lost.

[FoxLee2]

That was Catchword with Paul Coia. Another word which was a staple of the programme was PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS - 45 letters!

[Vimto]

Just one more I'm not happy with:
27, Shining with light (9). I have "Emanating", but is "man" a creature. I'm sure judging from other questions that there must be a better solution. "Emulating" would be nice with "emu" but it doesn't fit the definition. Any ideas please.