Possible Clues:

• Animal admired by Ogden Nash for its ability 'in such a fix to be so fertile'
• Terrarium reptile
• One always having a place to hide
• North America, aka ___ Island
• Reptile-shaped chocolate
• Express disapproval over end of supper with extremely little soup?
• Chocolate-and-pecan confection
• Reptile like a tortoise
• In gospel truth this reptile goes backwards
• Reptile on a green container of car wax