| SCALES | What covers a butterfly's wings, bodies, and legs |
| FLUTTER | Beat or movement of a butterfly's wings; a rapid heart rate, also called tachyarrhythmia; or, another name for a small bet (7) |
| SWIM | Do butterfly's wings in shadow start to interest Mike? (4) |
| EYESPOT | Dot on a peacock's tail or a butterfly's wing |
| DELICATE | like a butterfly's wing |
| DROOL | What covers a dog's tennis ball |
| GRASS | What covers a lot of ground? |
| HARDHAT | What covers a dome in construction? |
| MANTEL | Author of A Change of Climate and An Experiment in Love as well as the Cromwell trilogy comprising Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror and the Light (6) |
| ANTENNA | A TV aerial or a butterfly's feelers (7) |
| WEASELS | Small, predatory mammals with reddishbrown fur, elongated bodies and necks and short legs (7) |
| JAYS | Birds of the crow family, with pinkish-brown bodies and blue-and-black wings (4) |
| CRABS | Crustaceans having broad flattened bodies and ten legs |
| HEALTHINSURANCE | It covers our bodies and the ruins can heal amazingly (6,9) |
| ASTRONOMER | Scientist who studies individual celestial bodies and the universe as a whole |
| ASTRONOMERS | Scientists who study celestial bodies and the universe as a whole (11) |
| WHEAT | What covers the middle of a field? It's a cereal crop (5) |
| IRIDESCENT | Description of an object with a play of lustrous rainbow colours, such as a soap bubble, mother-of-pearl-lined shell, peacock's feather or butterfly's wing (10) |
| FLAP | What covers the opening of a doggy door |
| LONGJUMPER | Athlete and what covers his or her thighs? |
