| ARMYANT | Any of various small predatory insect species that forage in large aggressive groups and form no permanent nest (4,3) |
| TITMICE | Small songbirds that forage acrobatically among foliage (7) |
| IBIS | Bird that forages in mud |
| MANTIS | Frenchman opposed to small predatory insect (6) |
| CAPES | No-no, per Edna Mode in "The Incredibles" |
| HARM | No-no, per the Hippocratic Oath |
| IDOLATRY | No-no per the Ten Command-ments |
| THELIGHTBRIGADE | In aggressive group of men, big hitter had leg mangled (3,5,7) |
| APPALOOSAS | Horses shock ducks - aggressive group going in? (10) |
| THRIPS | Any of various small slender-bodied insects of the order Thysanoptera, some species of which are serious plant pests |
| SCREECHOWL | Any of various small birds of prey of the genus Megascops, especially the common M. asio of North American (7,3) |
| TETRA | Any of various small tropical freshwater fish of Hemigrammus and related genera, popular in aquaria: family Characidae (characins) (5) |
| SILD | Any of various small, young herrings, especially when prepared and canned in Norway (4) |
| TREECREEPER | Any of various small passerine birds of the family Certhidae, which live in woodlands throughout the Northern hemisphere (11) |
| GECKO | Any of various small chiefly tropical and usually nocturnal insectivorous terrestrial lizards typically with immovable eyelids. |
| MARTIN | Any of various small birds of the swallow family with a square or slightly forked tail (6) |
| SARDINE | Any of various small oily marine food fishes of the family Clupeidae (7) |
| LOCUST | Large insect that flies in large groups and eats crops (6) |
| GOLDEN | The insect Synemon plana, one of Australia's most endangered insect species due to the loss of its habitat |
| GOLDENSUNMOTH | The insect Synemon plana, one of Australia's most endangered insect species due to the loss of its habitat |
