| 20 answers for: Lepidopteran such as a burnet, Kentish glory or pe... |
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| RANK | ANSWER | CLUE |
| MOTH | Lepidopteran such as a burnet, Kentish glory or peach blossom (4) |
| WILDROSE | General name for a burnet in the buff, eglantine or sweetbrier in the rough, a dog flower in the hedgerow or other such uncultivated rambler or scrambler left naturally to grow (4,4) |
| BUTTERFLY | With wings reflected in a lupin, sweet pea or other papilionaceous flower, a lepidopteran such as a "dice-box" fritillary or the nymphalid originally called a "red admirable" (9) |
| IAMYOURCAPTIVE | Peach blossom |
| MOTHS | Feeding on night-scented blooms including honeysuckle and jasmine, insects such as the Brindled Beauties, Peach Blossoms, True Lover's Knots and Yellow Belles (5) |
| HOMER | Artist whose many paintings include A Basket of Clams, Girl in the Hammock, On the Stile and Peach Blossoms (5) |
| BUTTERFLIES | Lepidopterans such as Chalk Hill Blues, Clouded Yellows and Painted Ladies, whose name is thought to derive from an old belief that such insects stole churned cream (11) |
| BIND | A tendril of the honeysuckle, hop, morning glory or other twiner; a musical tie; a statutory constraint; or, any bore, difficulty, impasse or nuisance that enfetters, hampers or restrains (4) |
| HALO | Word for a circle of light around the Sun first, later the corona, glory or nimbus around the head of a saint (4) |
| VINE | From "fasten, tie", word for a twining stem of honeysuckle, hop, morning glory or other climber/creeper (4) |
| UNICORN | Known collectively as a blessing, glory or a marvel, a mythical beast also known as a monoceros (7) |
| TREE | Cherry or peach |
| KART | Vehicle for Mario or Peach |
| PITS | Cherry or peach seeds |
| GREENS | Leafy vegetables such as kale or spinach with wild or foraged varieties including winter cress, wood sorrel, sea purslane, dandelion, ramsons, nettle, chickweed and salad burnet (6) |
| UNICORNMOTH | A lepidopteran whose caterpillar has a spine on the lip of its shell (7,4) |
| STATES | The 50 US provinces or polities represented as stars on Old Glory or the Stars and Stripes (6) |
| IPOMOEAALBA | The night-blooming morning glory, or 'belle de nuit' (7,4) |
| PASTEL | Conte-like stick of pigment used in works by Degas to depict ballerinas and tutus; or, a pale or delicate colour such as baby blue, duck egg, rose or peach (6) |
| PAPILIO | Latin word for a butterfly, particularly a blue Mormon, Chinese peacock, flying handkerchief, queen page, spicebush, Ulysses or related swallowtailed lepidopteran (7) |
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