| ANTELOPE | Ruminant and insect run away to get married (8) |
| REINDEER | A hoofed ruminant (and legendary flyer?) (8) |
| JACOBSHEEP | A ruminant and a horse shut up inside army vehicle |
| REEDGRASS | Rise of ruminant and rat markedly stemmed growth |
| PENELOPE | The girl and the writer run away to get married (8) |
| RINGBOLT | Press the bell and run away to get a fastener (8) |
| FLEABITE | Run away to get over a little minor irritant (4,4) |
| ADJUTANT | Staff officer to notice beetle and insect (8) |
| ASSONANT | Similar-sounding old name given to animal and insect |
| STAGNANT | Lifeless deer, fantail and insect (8) |
| FIREBRAT | Sack boy with rodent and insect (8) |
| SIBILANT | Heard prophetess and insect hissing (8) |
| PEASANTS | Poor agricultural workers get vegetables and insects (8) |
| AARDWOLF | The nocturnal mammal Proteles cristatus, that inhabits the plains of southern Africa and feeds on termites and insect larvae |
| TWILIGHT | Time around dawn or dusk when crepuscular animals, birds and insects, including barn owls, foxes, hawk moths, nightjars, pipistrelles and tawnies, are most active (8) |
| MAYFLIES | June is soon here ___ and insects (8) |
| ANTENNAE | Feelers on the heads of crustaceans and insects (8) |
| BACTERIA | Bugs and insects heartily devoured by unnamed camel (8) |
| MAMMOTHS | Big animals and insects carrying endless ammunition? (8) |
| HONEYPOT | Ants who collect water, nectar and insect fluids when available in their desert ecosystem are called ___ ants |
