| MIDGES | On the banks of the Gover Stream, Des and I were driven mad by the small flies that swarm by the water (6) |
| MIDGE | Dipterous insect, in swarms by water (5) |
| GNATS | Small flies that resemble mosquitoes (5) |
| MOTHS | Insects that swarm around light bulbs |
| ANTS | Army ___ (insects that swarm) |
| MATTER | "If you were the only girl in the world, and I were the only boy; Nothing else would ... in the world today; We could go on loving in the same old way" |
| ADMIRAL | The officer is driven mad by the silly "40" |
| TROPPO | Driven mad by the heat and too much music (6) |
| ADMIT | Confess to being driven mad by the thing (5) |
| VISIGOTH | Member of the western group of Goths who were driven into the Balkans in the 4c A.D. (8) |
| SWEAT | Word followed by The Small Stuff gives the title of a BBC Three panel show 2013-15 (5) |
| IDES | Des and I talk of those days of old (4) |
| DERANGED | Driven mad by greed and trouble (8) |
| KINGLEAR | One driven mad by Regan and ilk? (4,4) |
| TURBATUS | "Bloke driven mad" by insane love of Venus, Ovid AA 2.563 |
| MILLIONDOLLAR | And 8D, Ballroom Billy and I were in the movie (7,6,4) |
| DIPTERA | Order of flies that includes mosquitoes and tsetse flies (7) |
| LAWS | Things that are "like Cobwebs which may catch small Flies, but let Wasps and Hornets break through," per Jonathan Swift |
| EDEN | The place where Adam and Eve were driven out of |
| BANGKOK | Thai city in which the Wat Arun (Temple of the Dawn) is found |
