| PUPA | Lifecycle consists of the egg, ___, pupa and then adult |
| TEEN | Adolescent, then adult-to-be (4) |
| GROWN | Sound pained to be so adult (5) |
| ULTRASOUND | Scanner run, so adult gets outcome (10) |
| SKINS | Bed bugs shed their ___ through ecdysis at each stage of the lifecycle |
| ANNUAL | A plant that completes its lifecycle within a single growing season, then dies (6) |
| CATERPILLAR | Provide support to an insect at a stage of lifecycle (11) |
| BACON | Cured gammon-, ham- or pancetta-like flitch, known to the French as lard and imagined as the reddish tips of the egg yolk-yellow flowers of the birdsfoot trefoil (5) |
| ANDI | "The Egg ___ ___"; 1947 Fred MacMurray movie |
| ANTILLES | Group of islands in the Caribbean which consist of the Greater and the Lesser (8) |
| DENMARK | It consists of the mainland of Jutland and many islands |
| SWEEPSTAKE | Contest where the prize consists of the money paid by the participants (10) |
| AUBERGINE | Fruit of the egg-plant, an important ingredient of the Mallorcan dish tumbet (9) |
| AND | "The Egg ____ I" |
| KIRIBATI | What country in the southwest Pacific consists of the Gilbert, Phoenix and Line island groups? (8) |
| HIPBONE | It consists of the ilium, ischium and pubis (3,4) |
| BIBLE | This consists of the Old and New Testaments (5) |
| JAW | It consists of the mandible and maxilla |
| ORION | His belt consists of the stars Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka |
| YOLK | Part of the egg used in the painting technique, tempera |
