| PIERID | From the Latin for "Muse", a butterfly in a family that includes the brimstone, cabbage-white, clouded yellow, cloudless sulphur, creamy marblewing and the orange-tip (6) |
| CURIO | Whether an antique musical barrel organ with a peculiar mechanism, a bizarre geological specimen, a butterfly in a glass case or a taxidermised animal in an unusual pose, it is an objet or novelty, na |
| OMEN | The appearance of a butterfly in a home, for some |
| ERATO | Muse a long time on origins of the opera |
| CALLERATO | Give one of the Muses a ring? |
| CURACAO | Drink muses a can crash in Cambridge University, and also Oxford (7) |
| IRIS | Flower in a family that includes crocuses, freesias, gladioli; or, the first name of the author who wrote The Sea, The Sea (4) |
| VIOLA | Genus of plants that includes the pansy; or, an instrument in a family that includes cello and double bass (5) |
| GAINSBOROUGH | Sudbury-born landscapist and portraitist, one of whose paintings includes his daughters, Margaret and Mary, chasing a cabbage-white butterfly on a summer evening, and another is of a boy dressed in bl |
| LOVAGE | Used to make a traditional English alcoholic cordial, a herbaceous perennial plant in a family that includes angelica, celery, cow parsley and fennel (6) |
| CHIMPANZEE | Great ape in a family that includes the bonobo, gorilla and modern human (10) |
| WARBLERS | General name for songbirds in a family that includes blackcaps, chiffchaffs and whitethroats (8) |
| WARBLER | Old World bird in a family that includes the blackcap, chiffchaff and whitethroat (7) |
| GERBIL | Mammal in a family that includes hamsters and mice, sometimes kept as a pet (6) |
| AUKS | Deep-diving seabirds in a family that includes the guillemots, puffins and razorbills (4) |
| STAYHERE | Don't move like a butterfly in this place? Sounds like something you'd say to a boxer! (4,4) |
| MINT | Spreading vigorously via runners, a herb in a family that includes lavender, rosemary and thyme, used to flavour Moroccan tea, julep or Pimm's Cup (4) |
| RAIL | Bird in a family that includes the corncrake, coot and moorhen (4) |
| ALPACA | Animal in a family that includes the guanaco, llama and vicuna (6) |
| PINEMARTIN | Animal in a family that includes badger, mink, otter and weasel, Martes martes (4,6) |
