| ARISTOPHANES | Greek comic dramatist whose works include The Birds and The Frogs |
| KNIGHTS | The -; play by Aristophanes, the dramatist who also wrote The Clouds, The Wasps, The Birds and The Frogs (7) |
| MENANDER | Greek comic dramatist whose only complete extant comedy is Dyskolos |
| SIRGEORGEETHEREGE | English comic dramatist whose works include "The Man of Mode" |
| TERENCE | Roman comic dramatist whose works include Andria and Eunuchus (7) |
| TREES | "Let me tell you 'bout the birds and the bees and the flowers and the ... and the moon up above; And |
| AESOP | "The Hares and the Frogs" writer |
| THETREES | Herb Newman wrote that song about the birds and the bees and the flowers and these (3,5) |
| HOMER | Greek poet to whom the Iliad, Odyssey and Batrachomyomachia (Battle of the Frogs and Mice) are traditionally attributed (5) |
| NATURE | The birds and the bees and a flower finished off King Cole (6) |
| RAY | The name of the Cajun firefly in The Princess and the Frog (3) |
| POLLEN | What blows in the breeze for the birds and the bees? (6) |
| FACTSOFLIFE | Office and flats converted for the birds and the bees |
| PET | The frogs face three major threats: habitat loss, collection for the ___ trade, and death from the fungal disease chytridiomycosis |
| ANURA | Largest of the three extant orders of amphibians, comprising the frogs and toads (5) |
| AMPHIBIAN | Any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class comprising the frogs, toads, newts, salamanders and caecilians (9) |
| ANURAN | Any tailless hopping vertebrate of the order that includes the frogs and toads (6) |
| MOLIERE | Leading French comic dramatist of the 17th century |
| SEALINGWAX | Gangster and popular legend from Washington, consumed by the birds and the bees, made an impression by enclosing letter (7,3) |
| TALKS | "The birds and the bees" and others |
