| BANKS | Iain, author of The Wasp Factory (5) |
| IAIN | ___ Banks, author of The Wasp Factory (4) |
| IAINBANKS | Scottish author of the novels The Wasp Factory and The Crow Road (4,5) |
| SAWFLY | Relative of the wasp |
| HORNET | Largest of the wasp family, having a powerful sting (6) |
| NASH | Poet who wrote of the wasp, "I distrust his waspitality" |
| LILLY | Ant-man and the Wasp star, Evangeline ----- (5) |
| WRAPS | Covers the wasp flies right into (5) |
| ALLOA | ... Athletic. Scottish football club nicknamed 'The Wasps' (5) |
| HIVES | Cycles to the wasps' and wild bees' nests (5) |
| KNIGHTS | The -; play by Aristophanes, the dramatist who also wrote The Clouds, The Wasps, The Birds and The Frogs (7) |
| PAULRUDD | Ant-Man and the Wasp actor who received the 2018 Hasty Pudding Man of the Year Award: 2 wds. |
| RUDD | "Paul of the upcoming movie ""Ant-Man and the Wasp""" |
| QUANTUMANIA | Subtitle of the current Ant-man And The Wasp film (11) |
| JONATHANMAJORS | Da 5 Bloods actor who plays Kang the Conqueror in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2 wds.) |
| ONE | Third tier, where the Bairns meet the Toonsers and the Citizens take on the Wasps (6,3) |
| LEAGUE | Third tier, where the Bairns meet the Toonsers and the Citizens take on the Wasps (6,3) |
| NINE | The Wasp was an update of this Wolseley (4) |
| ANTZ | Dan Aykroyd voices Chip the Wasp in what animated bug comedy of 1998? |
| EVANGELINE | _ Lilly, actress whose films include South of Heaven and Ant-Man and the Wasp (10) |
