| CARPENTERANT | Insect and fish come in to a book |
| TICKLING | Insect and fish provoking laughter |
| PLATE | Flat receptacle traditionally used for a church collection; or, a colour illustration, tipped-in to a book (5) |
| CARPENTER | Freshwater fish come in for a tradesman (9) |
| GARLAND | Fish come to rest in bays (7) |
| ROE | Where fish come from |
| OUTOFTHEBLUE | Where fish come from unexpectedly (3,2,3,4) |
| LAC | Resinous substance secreted as by an insect (and which is used to make varnish), as found in blackfly - and slack lace! (3) |
| BEERMAT | Insect and rodent drink a little milk, under a pint (4,3) |
| GIANTPANDA | Boar about to eat insect and a large bear |
| SHELLAC | Type of resin obtained from a female insect and used as a varnish (7) |
| BEELZEBUB | Wicked One put insect and ox in pound (9) |
| CRICKETBAT | Combination of insect and mammal that's used in test |
| TYRANT | Try to move, insect, and I'll bully you (6) |
| BEERMUG | Insect and nothing more, Spooner's said, in drinking vessel (4,3) |
| BUGBEAR | It means trouble to an insect and an animal (7) |
| WEKA | It is a flightless rail bird that lives in New Zealand. Its diet includes seeds, fruit, mice, eggs, and insects, and it scavenges in garbage bins. |
| FLEA | Blood-sucking insect and chief agent transmitting the bubonic plague in the Middle Ages (4) |
| ONION | The juice of what can be used to treat insect and scorpion bites? (5) |
| BUG | What word can describe an illness, an insect and a listening device? (3) |
