Answers Have To Have A Hidden Creature In Them

[starone]

only four to go but have wracked my brains and cannot find an answer.

20. An accurate timekeeper, readily started and stopped , used in race timing etc (9 letters - stopwatch, but where is the creature?)

27. A covering, layer, cloth for coats, a layer of paint etc. (7)

40. Seaside marshland (7) (Wetland, but again where is the creature?)

110. A Wall round the top of a well (6)

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[888]

27 coating

[mallyh]

40 eland

[starone]

Sounds right 888 but where is the creature?

[The Builder]

eland? well hidden though :o)

[The Builder]

cat I guess

[Tilly2]

Starone. Can you give us an example. Are the answers anagrams of creatures?

[mallyh]

coati

[aelmpvw]

coati

[starone]

I think the letters have to follow each other as in Trapeze - ape.

[mallyh]

20 stoat

[Noth43]

20. stopwatch = stoat?

[starone]

thanks mallyh and ael, and of course 888. Never heard of a coati, just goes to show, can't know everything!

[888]

pfft, like I do. (I think it's related to a hatand)

[starone]

Just looked in dictionary for coati and there it is - wow, you learn something each day don't you, especially when you do quizzes.

[starone]

888 - does that mean I have to go and look in the dictionary again, for hatand? Or are you teasing me?

[The Builder]

Well .............. in that case ........... 110 Coping (pig) :o)))

[starone]

Example - clue: a type of pear. answer: comice - mice.

[starone]

If I cannot get letters actually following each other I think I will take the next best thing, as you have all suggested. I cannot see why it should not be acceptable. Thanks a lot everyone. You are all good to me, for some reason, can't think why!!

[mallyh]

you're welcome starone x

[quinie]

20 Hi,starone.metronome is a type of timekeeper and monotreme is an anagram. A monotreme is an egg-laying mammal eg duck-billed platypus. Saying all that I'm sure there must be a simpler answer!!