| CREEPYCRAWLIES | Animated lawyer precise over contamination originally caused by insects (6,8) |
| OAKAPPLE | Gall caused by insects on a tree (3,5) |
| OAKAPPLES | Galls caused by insects on some twigs (3-6) |
| NECTAR | Sugary fluid secreted by flowering plants to encourage pollination by insects and birds (6) |
| ANTHILL | Mound built by insects found by amateur conservationists on rising ground (3,4) |
| POLLINATION | Fertilisation by the transfer of pollen from an anther to a stigma, as effected by insects, birds, bats and the wind (11) |
| ALICANTE | A soldier perhaps beset by insects in hot city (8) |
| FLAMBOYANT | Elaborate old pulpit covered by insects (10) |
| BERATES | Deserter, beset by insects, curses (7) |
| LICHEE | The fellow beset by insects in tree (6) |
| PEASANTY | Rustic vegetables infested by insects? (8) |
| DUNEBUGGY | Traveller on beach in shade, European plagued by insects |
| LAC | Red resin secreted by insects, used in dyes and varnishes |
| HYMENOPTERA | Hey, one tramp is being troubled by insects! |
| MIDDLEAGES | Led a break-out when beseiged by insects, in former times |
| IBEXES | Mountain dwellers - one cross, bitten by insects |
| STINGS | Painful wounds made by insects (6) |
| FAMILIES | Tribes aim to cook surrounded by insects (8) |
| RANTS | Storms. Rain accompanied by insects (5) |
| ANTHILLS | Mounds of soil formed by insects of the family Formicidae (8) |
