| OUTSWIM | Win a butterfly race |
| OMEN | A butterfly flying into a house is said to be a good one |
| ADMIRAL | Red -; feeding on buddleia and rotting orchard fruit, a butterfly that is a common feature of the British countryside despite being a seasonal migrant (7) |
| EYESPOT | An ocellus on the train of a peacock or wing of a butterfly such as a gatekeeper or meadow-brown (3-4) |
| ALI | Floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee |
| ALIT | Settled, as a butterfly on a twig |
| BEE | "Moves like a butterfly, stings like a ___" (3) |
| STAYHERE | Don't move like a butterfly in this place? Sounds like something you'd say to a boxer! (4,4) |
| ANTENNA | About ten Anna's a bit of a butterfly |
| CABBAGEWHITE | Watch a big bee fluttering. Or could it be a butterfly? (7,5) |
| SWARM | Did a butterfly, say, crossing river move in a group? (5) |
| ORANGETIP | Feeding on cuckooflower and garlic mustard during its larval stage, a butterfly species emerging around April that inhabits a range of rural habitats (6,3) |
| CATERPILLAR | The larva of a butterfly or moth - many types of which are a pest in the garden (11) |
| SWIMMABLE | Of a kind that may be crossed with a butterfly? |
| CHRYSALIS | A caterpillar turns into this before becoming a butterfly (9) |
| WHEEL | 'Who breaks a butterfly upon a ___?' (Alexander Pope, An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot (1735) |
| ALIQUOT | Sample of "Float like a butterfly, sting like a be"? |
| YELLOWADMIRAL | A butterfly (and perhaps a cowardly naval commander?) (6,7) |
| GOOFFTHEDEEPEND | Take a dislike to one part of swimming pool? That's what a butterfly expert might do! (2,3,3,4,3) |
| NET | Structure for catching a butterfly, dividing a tennis court, excluding mosquitoes or retaining the hair (3) |