| BEHEMOTH | Be he an insect or monster (8) |
| EPHEMERA | An insect, or things generally, that are short-lived (8) |
| HELMSMAN | He, an old railway worker, now steers the ship (8) |
| POSEIDON | A god's name! All Greek to me and all at sea be he mythically! (8) |
| RASPUTIN | Endlessly reckless corrupt Russian leader? Could be him (8) |
| DONQUOTE | "Make him an offer he can't refuse," e.g.? |
| LIBERATE | Make him an freeman, Albert i.e. (8) |
| DINOSAUR | A sound in the air? Can't be him! He's no longer with us! |
| ALTEREGO | *The seamster's acclaimed skill for refashioning gave him an ... |
| BOBDYLAN | Singer-songwriter whose song Things Have Changed from the movie Wonder Boys won him an Oscar in 2000: 2 wds. |
| SAMSMITH | Singer-songwriter whose song Writing's on the Wall from the movie Spectre won him an Oscar in 2015: 2 wds. |
| METAMORPHOSIS | The process of transformation, by an insect or amphibian, from an immature form to an adult form in two or more distinct stages |
| ANTENNA | From the Latin for "sail-yard", word for a feeler or horn of an insect or other arthropod, adopted by Marconi to describe an aerial (7) |
| CORMORANT | Part of a plant, or an insect, or a bird (9) |
| HEXAD | Legs on an insect or strings on a guitar |
| BUG | An insect or something that makes you sick (3) |
| LARVA | Immature form of an insect or animal (5) |
| INSTAR | Developmental stage of an insect or other arthropod (6) |
| CRICKET | An insect or a sport (7) |
| EARWIG | An insect or to eavesdrop (6) |
