| IMMATURE | Bed bugs have five ___ nymph life stages and a final sexually mature adult stage |
| IMAGO | Sexually mature adult insect (5) |
| EARWIGS | These bugs have pincers |
| ZAP | Let the bug have it |
| EYES | Crickets have five ___. Two compound eyes which have various lenses which also help to protect them from predators and three simple eyes which help them to distinguish between light and dark. |
| LAPOFHONOUR | And a final circuit of the track by the victor (3, 2, 6) |
| HOGMANAY | Chap tucks into pig and a final bit of turkey today! (8) |
| SESTINA | Poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet |
| PUPAE | Four life stages: eggs, larvae, ___, adult |
| CYMOUS | From the Greek for "wheel", a word for revolutions of phenomena or time; orbits; sequences of life stages; biorhythms; or, velocipedes (6) |
| CYCLES | From the Greek for "wheel", a word for revolutions of phenomena or time; orbits; sequences of life stages; biorhythms; or, velocipedes (6) |
| AGEGAP | Feature of a couple at different life stages |
| SENSORY | Human beings have five ____ organs, two in pairs |
| ACTS | All of Shakespeare's plays have five ____. (4) |
| AMPHIBIAN | A cold-blooded vertebrate animal such as frogs, toads, newts and salamanders who have an aquatic gill-breathing larval stage followed (typically) by a terrestrial lung-breathing adult stage |
| LOOE | The bill of a mature adult is about 22 cm long and almost 10cm wide with a ___ at its tip. |
| LYON | Identify the city which plays a major, historic, and culinary capital frequently used to bridge the gap between intermediate stages and Alps of Tour de France. (4) |
| TRAUMATA | A mature adult extremely short of energy, having suffered wounds (8) |
| SIX | Bed bugs are insects and therefore have ___ legs |
| HEAT | Bed bugs come out at night when the lure of Carbon dioxide and our ___ is too much to handle |
