| ELYTRON | Hardened forewing of a beetle (7) |
| ELYTRA | Hardened forewings of certain insects, not used to fly |
| ORANGETIP | Butterfly with splashes of colour on the outer forewings of males |
| HORN | A musical wind instrument fashioned from brass or a conch; an antenna of a beetle; an antler of a deer; a tentacle of a snail; a tip of a crescent; or, a symbol of a cuckold (4) |
| SILVERY | Brownish moth, Autographa gamma, with a light marking on each forewing (6,1) |
| SCARAB | A dung-beetle, or a gem cast in the form of a beetle (6) |
| CRICKET | Insect with long antennae, the male of which makes chirping noises by rubbing its forewings together (7) |
| GRUB | Larva of a beetle |
| COLORADO | State of a beetle? (8) |
| CUBANHEEL | Distinctive feature of a Beetle boot? (5,4) |
| WITCHETTY | Australian wood eating larva of a beetle (9) |
| FIREFLY | It makes light of being a beetle (7) |
| INSPECT | Check out a Beetle, for example, without parking (7) |
| ECUADOR | A beetle found under silver coin in the country (7) |
| SCUTTLE | Move like a beetle or crab (7) |
| LADYBUG | American name for a beetle often red with black spots (7) |
| RETINACULUM | Small hook that joins the forewing and hind wing of an insect during flight |
| SHARD | Archaically, a boundary water; dialectically, a gap; vernacularly, a broken piece, crock or scrap of pottery; or, zoologically, from a misunderstanding of Shakespeare, a beetle's elytron or wing case |
| EARWIG | Insect of the order Dermaptera having leathery forewings (6) |
| MESOTHORAX | Segment of an insect's body which bears the forewings |
