| GATEKEEPER | European butterfly also called a hedge brown (10) |
| MONARCH | Butterfly also called a common tiger or wanderer |
| DUNNOCK | Small European songbird also called a hedge sparrow (7) |
| ONEFINEDAY | Aria in Madame Butterfly also known as Un bel di vedremo (3,4,3) |
| COLLARD | A Somerset hill, site of rare Large Blue butterfly; also term for 'greens' in cabbage family (7) |
| COMMA | Orange and brown European butterfly with a white mark on the underside of each hind wing (5) |
| CABBAGEWHITE | A pair of books found in enclosed space with the least bit on European butterfly (7,5) |
| PURPLEEMPEROR | Large European butterfly, Apatura iris, the female of which is patterned with dark brown and white markings (6,7) |
| APOLLO | Greek god; large European butterfly |
| ADMIRAL | Senior naval rank or the red European butterfly |
| BRIMSTONE | European butterfly once sup posedly attached to Hell |
| ORANGETIP | European butterfly (6-3) |
| RINGLET | The European butterfly Aphantopus hyperantus (7) |
| HAY | An old word for a hedge or fence; a winding country dance; a weaving or serpentine choreographic figure in such a reel; or, etymologically linked to "fennel", a word for alfalfa, clover, grass etc, cu |
| STILE | Feature of the countryside in the form of a set of steps built into a hedge or fence or a "squeeze belly" built into a dry-stone wall (5) |
| GATE | Type of door in a fence or a hedge; or, a passage into a city (4) |
| HERON | Known collectively as a sedge or a hedge, a wading bird related to the little egret, spoonbill and bittern (5) |
| SHEAR | Trim a hedge (and cut the wool of a sheep)! (5) |
| CLIPPER | Like one tackling a hedge with a tea-ship (7) |
| HAW | In which a whortleberry is a hedge fruit (3) |
