| MUSCA | House-fly genus or a constellation (5) |
| DIPTERA | Fly genus (7) |
| BUGLE | Plant of the ajuga genus, or a musical instrument (5) |
| INDUS | Name of a river or a constellation (5) |
| CASTOR | A flour dredger-like pepperette or sugar shaker with a perforated top; a sextuple star system that is Pollux's less-bright twin in Gemini; a beaver, its genus or a hat from its fur; or, a small swivel |
| ERICA | Genus or Latin name of heather (5) |
| VESPA | Hornet genus, or type of motor scooter (5) |
| VIOLA | Bowed instrument; pansy genus; or, Sebastian's twin sister in Twelfth Night (5) |
| RIBES | From Latin for "bramble-bush", the genus or botanical appellation of the rosaceous canefruits including black, boysen, cloud, dew, logan, marion, rasp, tay and wine berries (5) |
| WHEAT | Grass of the genus or its grain, used in making flour for bread (5) |
| CURRANT | Berry of a shrub in the Ribes genus; or, a small dried grape (7) |
| SPECIES | Unit of biological classification ranking below a genus; or, a group into which cloud genera are subdivided in meteorology (7) |
| UCA | Fiddler crab genus (or, a university minus its L) |
| VANESSA | Butterfly genus or a Samuel Barber opera (7) |
| UNIO | Mussel genus (or a marriage cut short?) |
| STARFISH | Known collectively as a galaxy or a constellation, a marine echinoderm inhabiting a coral reef, rock pool, seagrass meadow or kelp forest (8) |
| LYNX | Bobcat, or a constellation (4) |
| RACE | House fly (4) |
| BLUEBOTTLE | Common house-fly (10) |
| PEST | House fly, e.g. |
