| FRANZKAFKA | "The Metamorphosis" author |
| KAFKA | "The Metamorphosis" author |
| OVID | "Metamorphosis" author |
| 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) |
| INSTAR | The successive nymphal stage in the metamorphosis of insects. |
| SAMSA | Character who underwent "The Metamorphosis" |
| RESCIND | Annul the metamorphosis of Cinders (7) |
| GREGOR | Samsa of Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis' |
| IMAGO | Part of The Metamorphosis provides reading material in Number Ten (5) |
| NOVELLAS | Orwell's "Animal Farm" and Kafka's "The Metamorphosis," for two |
| GREGORSAMSA | Main character of Kafka's novella The Metamorphosis (6,5) |
| PROM | Walk of rebellious characters in The Metamorphosis (4) |
| INSECT | "The Metamorphosis": "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic..." |
| SHAPE | The time of metamorphosis of the random drama society? (2,4,5) |
| ATSOME | The time of metamorphosis of the random drama society? (2,4,5) |
| LARVA | Scientific term for the young of insects that undergo complete metamorphosis |
| TADPOLE | Emerging from spawn in late February to early March, the aquatic larva of a frog before its metamorphosis into a froglet (7) |
| FROG | Section of the underside of a horse's hoof; or, a type of amphibian following its metamorphosis from a tadpole (4) |
| PUPA | Life stage originally represented by the circled letters, prior to metamorphosis |
| NARCISSUS | Metamorphosis of ____ , 1937 painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali based on a Greek myth (9) |
