| CHRYSALIS | Moth or butterfly pupa (9) |
| CATERPILLAR | Grub of the moth or butterfly (11) |
| CHRYSALID | Cherry, without hesitation said in Latin, is pupa (9) |
| PAPERBUSH | Common name of Edgeworthia chrysantha - sort of herb 'Pupas' (9) |
| PLUME | A downy aigrette, marabou or other large, ornamental or showy feather; or, something reminiscent of said panache, such as a cloud/wisp of smoke, a T-shaped white moth or a pappus of a dandelion clock |
| TABBY | Watered silk taffeta, originally from Baghdad; a cat with a brindled, mackerel or streaked coat, evocative of this; a gossip; a grey-brown mottled moth; or, coquina-like concrete (5) |
| GYPSY | Kind of moth or cab |
| EATEN | Moth or worm follower |
| INSECT | Moth or mantis |
| FAIRY | Shakespeare's Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth or Mustardseed |
| BUG | Moth or ant |
| LUNA | Moth or moon goddess |
| EMPEROR | ------- moth or ------penguin (7) |
| GEOMETER | Moth or mathematician (8) |
| RIVULET | Brownish European moth; or, a small stream (7) |
| BURNET | "White rose of Scotland"; cloth of the Middle Ages; day-flying moth; or, a cucumber-flavoured salad herb (6) |
| FORESTER | Arboriculturist; woodland-dweller; emerald-green moth; or, the author of the Horatio Hornblower books (8) |
| WING | One of the flight- or lift producing appendages of a bat, bee, beetle, bird or butterfly (4) |
| PSYCHE | From the Greek for "soul, breath" or "butterfly", the mind, spirit or "self" (6) |
| BOWTIE | Adorned by Bond, Churchill, Poirot and the 11th incarnation of the Doctor, a neck accessory with a shape reflected in farfalle or "butterfly" pasta; or, a pattern for patchwork quilts, resembling this |
