| APHID | Any small homopterous insect of the family that includes the blackfly and greenfly (5) |
| APHIDS | Small homopterous insects that feed by sucking the juices from plants |
| APHIS | Genus of insects including the blackfly (5) |
| LAC | Resinous substance secreted as by an insect (and which is used to make varnish), as found in blackfly - and slack lace! (3) |
| SAP | Juice of plants upon which aphids and greenfly feed (3) |
| CICADA | Homopterous insect (6) |
| EQUID | Any member of the family that includes horses, mules and zebras (5) |
| BEECH | Tree in the family that includes the oaks and the chestnuts (5) |
| OBOES | Instruments in the family that includes the cor anglais and bassoon (5) |
| LLAMA | Pack animal in the family that includes the alpaca, camel, guanaco and vicuna (5) |
| BROWN | What is the surname of the family that Paddington Bear lives with? (5) |
| MURID | Zoological word, based on "mouse", for a rodent of a very large family that includes the aforementioned beastie plus most species of gerbils, rats and voles (5) |
| ALDER | Tree in the family that includes birches, hazels and hornbeams which is common in river and lakeside forests (5) |
| ROSES | With a national collection of rambling varieties at Moor Wood in Gloucestershire, flowers in the family that includes apples, meadowsweet, pears, quinces and strawberries (5) |
| BIRCH | Tree in the family that includes alders and hazels (5) |
| MIDGE | Fragile mosquito-like dipterous insect of the family Chironomidae |
| SATYRID | Any butterfly of the family that includes the browns, heaths, ringlets etc. (7) |
| ELAPID | A venomous snake of the family that includes the cobras, coral snakes and mambas |
| AGAVE | Plant family that includes the yucca |
| CARP | Freshwater food fish of the family that includes the minnows (4) |
