| DAPHNIA | Water flea, possibly an aphid |
| HOPPER | Flea possibly in bin (6) |
| FLYLEAF | Insect, flea possibly found at end of book (7) |
| BUDAPEST | Capital flower shortly spotted by an aphid perhaps |
| GREENFLY | An aphid found on garden plant (8) |
| LEAF | Food for an aphid (4) |
| PHYLLOXERA | An aphid that threatened to destroy the vineyards of Europe in the 19th century (10) |
| ANTCOW | An aphid that secretes honeylike substance eaten by ants (3,3) |
| SUCKS | An aphid the sap from plant stems, leaves, buds and blooms (5) |
| STYLET | Hard anatomical structure, such as the mouthpart of an aphid (6) |
| FLY | An aphid is a green or black one; a white one is totally different (3) |
| DAPHNID | Row hard, with floating leaf turning over water flea |
| SUGARY | Like an aphid's honeydew secretion (6) |
| LAKEHURON | Great Lake, noted for invasive populations of zebra mussel and spiny water flea (4,5) |
| CRUSTACEA | Water fleas, barnacles, etc. |
| COELOMS | Genus of one-eyed water fleas (7) |
| HONEYDEW | A type of winter melon... and an aphid's sugary secretion (8) |
| PROCONSUL | An extinct genus of primate, possibly an ancestor of humans also an official of ancient Rome (9) |
| CRUSTACEAN | Any arthropod of the class that includes the crabs, lobsters, shrimp, water fleas etc. (10) |
| ENORMITY | Minor, yet possibly an atrocious crime (8) |
