| PROCESSIONARY | Type of caterpillar which over-winters in tent-like nests in pine trees and is a real pest in Mallorca as the irritating hairs on its body can cause harmful reactions in people and animals (13) |
| CROSSBILL | Finch that is a resident in the Balearic Islands where it likes to nest in pine trees, the Catalan name for this bird is trencapinyons, which means pine- nut cracker |
| SPRUCEBEETLE | Insect that feeds on and nests in pine and other evergreen trees in North America (6,6) |
| DEMERARA | A painter finishes "Of French sea" and is a real sweetener (8) |
| WIGWAM | Rug with a motif originally in tent-like dwelling |
| INSECTS | Small, invertebrate creatures, the most dangerous in Mallorca are the pine processionary caterpillars which have toxic hairs on their body that can cause skin or allergic reactions in humans and are p |
| NORWAYRAT | Quisling was a real pest |
| HUNDRED | - Acre Wood; fictional land created by A. A. Milne, home to Pooh Bear's House, Bee Tree, Six Pine Trees and Where the Woozle Wasn't (7) |
| NEWLAID | Only just deposited like nest-eggs! (3-4) |
| ONES | US dollar bills of which over 12 billion are in circulation |
| REI | Company with a pine tree and mountains in its logo |
| LEAFIEST | Most verdant field, 40% of which over the street (8) |
| FALSEPRETENCES | Barriers broken by real pest involved in deceptive behaviour (5,9) |
| NOODGE | Real pest |
| WWI | Conflict for which "Over There" was written: Abbr. |
| MARTIN | Bird of the swallow family which likes to build its mud nests in the eaves of buildings and is abundant in Mallorca, where it originally suspended its nests from the roofs of caves (6) |
| LIMERICK | Lear's, for example, went, "There was an old man with a beard; Who said, 'It is just a I feared!'; Two Owls and a Hen; Four Larks and a Wren;, Have all built their nests in my beard!" |
| OWLS | In an Edward Lear verse, what birds, along with larks, a hen and a wren, built their nests in a beard? (4) |
| DRBACH | Bacteriologist, physician and pathologist who devised floral health remedies and spent some winters in Cromer in the 1930s (2, 4) |
| BARNACLEGOOSE | Migratory black-and-white bird of Greenland and Norway that commonly winters in NW Britain; Branta leucopsis (8,5) |
