| VANESSA | Genus of the red admiral and painted lady butterflies (7) |
| NETTLES | Esteemed by tortoiseshells, red admirals and other butterflies, a foraged plant with leaves used for tea, soup or to wrap the Cornish cheese yarg (7) |
| DAD | Relative of the red admiral (3) |
| SARGENT | Artist who painted Lady Agnew of Lochnaw, Morning Walk, Gondoliers' Siesta and Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose (7) |
| THISTLE | Prickly plant whose flowers, immortalised on coats of arms, coins, Scottish emblems and shortbread rounds, provide downy parachute-like seeds for goldfinches and nectar for bumblebees and painted ladi |
| BRUSHED | Red Bush brewed and painted (7) |
| ZHENGHE | Chinese admiral and diplomat sometimes hailed as China's greatest explorer. (5,2) |
| VANESSID | Any brightly-coloured butterfly of the group that includes the red admiral, Camberwell beauty etc. (8) |
| BELL | Sharing her forename with the Latin epithet of the painted lady butterfly, an artist whose portrait The Memoir Club depicts prominent members of the Bloomsbury Group, including her sister, Virginia Wo |
| ATALANTA | Mythological Greek huntress whose name is recalled in the scientific name for the red admiral (8) |
| MIGRATION | Seasonal journey of the population of a species from one habitat to another, such as that of the humpback whale, Atlantic salmon, woodcock, swift or painted lady butterfly (9) |
| REYNOLDS | First president of the Royal Academy of Arts who co-founded The Club and painted actress Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse (8) |
| LELY | Artist who popularised mezzotint in England and painted the Windsor Beauties and portraits of figures including Charles II and Henry Vane the Younger (4) |
| REDGRAVE | Joely Richardson's thespian mater who shares her forename with the genus of the painted lady butterfly (8) |
| BUTTERFLY | Insect akin to a moth, Mallorca boasts a good range with varieties such as the Swallowtails, Clouded Yellows and Painted Ladies enjoying the long grass and wild flowers that abound in the island's cou |
| RAEDER | Surname of the German admiral and Chief of Staff to Hipper, in World War I (6) |
| DALI | Surrealist artist who made the film Un Chien Andalou with Luis Bunuel and painted The Persistence of Memory (4) |
| CAROUSED | Cared about old United States, in short, and painted the town red (8) |
| BUDDLEIA | Flowering shrub known as the butterfly bush because of its attractiveness to tortoiseshells, red admirals, peacocks, painted ladies and other lepidopterans (8) |
| SPEEDCHESS | German admiral and Nazi guard direct current movement of men with expedition |
