| REDANTS | Pharaohs, in the insect world |
| REDANT | Pharaoh in the insect world, perhaps |
| PEPI | Name shared by two Pharaohs in the Sixth Dynasty of ancient Egypt |
| RAMESES | Pharaoh in "The Ten Commandments" |
| POTIPHAR | Officer of Pharaoh in the Old Testament who bought Joseph as a slave (8) |
| CICADA | In the insect world, which insect makes the loudest sound? (6) |
| GLOWWORMS | They're among the brighter creatures in the insect world (4-5) |
| ADULT | Imago, in the insect world |
| WIDOW | Black, in the insect world |
| DADDYLONGLEGS | Father could make big strides in the insect world? (5-4-4) |
| IMAGO | As an adult in the insect world I'm past it |
| SWARM | With Mars, it may be a throng in the insect world (5) |
| ANTS | Colony- or formicarium-dwellers outnumbering humans by millions to one and long perceived as the workaholics of the insect world (4) |
| LADYBIRD | One of a loveliness of spotted goldings emblematic of children's books and, formerly, Woolworths clothes - a gardener's friend of the insect world, whose nomenclature Coccinellidae means "clad in scar |
| PURPLEEMPEROR | Raging king of the insect world? |
| GRUBSCREWS | Tiny tighteners from the insect world? (10) |
| BEE | Nectar collector of the insect world |
| IMASH | "...He was certainly never cruel to animals, but I had never known his charity to embrace the insect world. 'Why couldn' |
| EGYPTIAN | Like the Pharaohs in page yet to be composed (8) |
| PYRAMID | Any one of the monumental structures used as royal mausolea for pharaohs in ancient Egypt (7) |
