| INSECT | "The Metamorphosis": "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic..." |
| SAMSA | "As Gregor ___ awoke one morning from uneasy dreams...": Kafka |
| AWOKE | "As Gregor Samsa ___ one morning ..." |
| SYMPTOM | Indication of what's wrong coming from uneasy MP to minister |
| PUPATES | Undergoes a metamorphosis, as an insect |
| ONOCCASION | Sometimes undergoing metamorphosis, as in cocoon (2,8) |
| METAMORPHOSIS | The ___, 19 novel in which Gregor Samsa wakes to find he is an insect (13) |
| MAELSTROM | Returns in the morning from the Spanish wild storm, as all hell breaks lose (9) |
| EVELYN | Diarist and founding fellow of the Royal Society who, on December 25 in 1657, found himself arrested at gunpoint and detained as a prisoner for attending church during the Puritan ban on Christmas (6) |
| THROWN | Astonished, like the rider who found himself on the ground? (6) |
| ERICA | Heather getting out in the morning from the U.S. (5) |
| SAMOS | Distress call sent round in the morning from somewhere in the Aegean (5) |
| MALAPROP | Word or phrase having the same reference as one used later, as 'they' in 'when they awoke, the children arose' (8) |
| NARCISSISM | Self-regard of youth who found himself winning on the pools? (10) |
| UNDERWORLD | Where Orpheus found himself in the title of Jacques Offenbach's operetta (10) |
| KAFKA | Novelist who created Gregor Samsa |
| GEORGE | Chester student who found himself at the centre of Danny Lomax's public coming out in Hollyoaks recently (6,5) |
| GREGOR | ____ Samsa becomes a beetle in Kafka's The Metamorphosis |
| SIAM | Is back before morning from the country (4) |
| AMBUSH | Jump out in the morning from a shrub? (6) |
