| GNAT | Any of a number of dipterous midges often abounding in swarms or clouds near water (4) |
| CAMOMILE | Name, from "melon, earth-apple", for a herb with delicate pome-scented low-growing blossoms with a daisy-white hue, often abounding in potagers or lawns and cultivated for their sleep-inducing apigeni |
| LUNA | Occasionally seen cloud near moon (4) |
| LOCUST | Short-horned grasshopper known for forming destructive swarms, or North American flowering tree or shrub of genus Robinia (6) |
| FOG | Cloud near the ground |
| MAGGOT | Soft limbless larva of dipterous insects such as the common housefly (6) |
| HORDE | A large group / a moving swarm or pack of insects, wolves |
| DRE | Protagonist on "Swarm" or "Black-ish" |
| RAYS | Beams of light, perhaps breaking through darkness or clouds, thus symbolic of hope; or, fishes that glide through the water with fan-like fins (4) |
| SCAD | Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae |
| DACE | Any of a number of species of small fish |
| SCUD | Spray, rain or clouds driven by the winds (4) |
| WREATH | Circlet of seasonal winter greenery placed on a door or a table during the festive season; a niveous drift formed in a blizzard; or, a curl of smoke or cloud (6) |
| TEEM | Meet back in swarm (4) |
| TEAM | Eleven, maybe, in swarm that's heard (4) |
| BITE | What Scottish midges do with a little piece of food (4) |
| RAIN | Word before "check" or "cloud" |
| SPRAYS | Small bouquets, boutonnieres, corsages or nosegays of flowers and foliage; ornamental brooches resembling thus; or, clouds of flying droplets of scent or water (6) |
| STRADIVARIUS | Any of a number of violins manufactured by a famous family in Cremona in the 17th and 18th centuries (12) |
| REDGIANT | Any of a number of large, cool stars in a late phase of stellar evolution (3,5) |
