All creatures great and small

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I only need 4 answers! All answers are creatures of the land, sea or sky and a few fictitious ones as well
1) Whilst at Trinity, applied for the Diplomatic Service
2) The Queen matches them
3) ------- Ramble (7 dashes on the question paper)
4) enots

Fingers crossed some of you clever folk will know the answers!!

[grasscarp]

1 Platypus

[grasscarp]

4 could this be a fossil = turned to stone

[grasscarp]

my suggestion for 2 is Swans. She owns them and there is a match called Swan vestas.

[patnlcc]

Thank you so much, grasscarp - the laugh is, I don't even know what the prize is!!

[sadielady]

3 Muskrat Ramble (Louis Armstrong)

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Thank you, Barb 7771 !

[JMR27]

4. Diamond-back (type of terrapin)

[Dundee_Doll]

4 turnstone

[Dundee_Doll]

4 turnstone (type of bird)

[patnlcc]

Thank you Dundee doll!!
I've had 2 suggestions for the Trinity/Diplomatic service clue. Either platypus or diplodocus (dinosaur). anyone got any thoughts?