| LOVELINESS | Collective noun for ladybirds (10) |
| LADYBUG | US term for ladybird |
| BEETLES | Ladybirds, e.g. (7) |
| HENS | Some of the bipolar ladybirds |
| APHIDS | What is a favourite food of ladybirds? (6) |
| GREENFLY | Garden pest eaten by ladybirds (8) |
| LAIDBY | Two thirds of ladybirds in a storm saved |
| CLAVICORN | Sex that's jaw-dropping in family of ladybirds (9) |
| INSECTS | Butterflies, frog-hoppers, lacewings, ladybirds and other segmented arthropods studied by bug-hunters and entomologists (7) |
| HARLEQUIN | Columbine's clownish lover in a diamond-patterned costume, from whom some variegated dogs, ducks and ladybirds derive their names (9) |
| ATHENS | At the ladybird's capital |
| SPOTS | Markings such as a Dalmatian's flecks, an English setter's speckles, a ladybird's dots, a leopard's rosettes or a peacock's ocelli (5) |
| INSECT | Ladybird, for example (6) |
| APHID | Food for a ladybird (5) |
| BEETLE | Ladybird, for example (6) |
| BETEL | Ladybird for one we hear is stimulatingly chewed in Asia |
| NETTLES | Bee-, butterfly- and ladybird-attracting stinging wild plants used for tea, soup, beer or nitrogen-rich garden feed (7) |
| BARNEYBEE | A name for a ladybird, from an old schoolyard rhyme (5,6,3) |
| BISHY | A name for a ladybird, from an old schoolyard rhyme (5,6,3) |
| MINIBEAST | Antlion, boatman, frog-hopper, harvestman, lacewing, ladybird or other tiny entomological invertebrate animal which, despite being too small for a backbone, thus spineless, wields immense power in its |
