| THEMERRYMONARCH | Charles's subject, the butterfly? That's on the right track |
| ABC | The rudiments of any subject / the alphabet |
| ALBA | Frequent Goya subject the Duchess of ___ |
| THEME | Subject: "The Crossword Compiler" (5) |
| SEEMED | Based on a subject: 'The Sea' (6) |
| REEVE | Subject: the First Lady's Old magistrate (5) |
| TOPIC | As a subject, the best, I see (5) |
| RELISHED | School subject the girl coming in top loved |
| BIOSCIENCE | Subject:'The Dance of Iconic Bees' (10) |
| TERMITES | What a pest! To subject the little ones to it (8) |
| BABESINTHEWOOD | Traditional children's tale and pantomime subject; the story of two abandoned children (5,2,3,4) |
| SITTERS | Subjects the artist is unlikely to drop? (7) |
| THEMES | With some subjects, the message is less wise |
| ALMATADEMA | Painter of classical subjects, "The Mater Mated" possibly one (4-6) |
| PEACOCK | The male of the national bird of India; the butterfly Aglais io; or, the novelist who wrote Headlong Hall, Nightmare Abbey and Crotchet Castle (7) |
| EYESPOT | Any one of the markings on the tail or train of a peacock or the wings of the butterfly Aglais io (3-4) |
| SWAM | Did the butterfly show on the outside in the morning? (4) |
| MERIAN | Naturalist and entomologist noted for her accurate watercolours of insects and plants who was one of the first to document the metamorphosis of the butterfly (6) |
| ELLE | Magazine that "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" author Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor of |
| SMALLWHITE | Everyone's in the swim, swimming the butterfly |
