| BERATES | Scolds the insects and the animal within (7) |
| PIRATES | Being good, scolds the villains (7) |
| RETREAT | The tree shakes and the animal is about to turn tail (7) |
| TOTTERY | Shaky animal within edges of territory (7) |
| BEESWAX | Honey- and nectar-scented substance made by the insects looked after by apiculturists, used for candles, lip balm, furniture polish and such like (7) |
| BEETLES | The insects are let loose among other insects (7) |
| EARBASH | Scold the listener before the party (7) |
| NECTARY | Part of a plant that attracts the insects or birds (7) |
| REPROVE | Scold the overworked agent first (7) |
| ECDYSIS | The periodic shedding of the cuticle in insects and other arthropods or the outer epidermal layer in reptiles (7) |
| WEGOTTA | Eric Burdon & the Animals hit, ___ Get Out of This Place |
| TESTING | Gutted the insect's weapon, dealing with bugs? (7) |
| FONDANT | Something sweet the insect's after, having a liking for (7) |
| ANTENNA | A feeler or horn on the heads of insects and crustaceans (7) |
| BRITTEN | Composer attacked by insects and beginning to run inside (7) |
| FLYLEAF | Insect and its dinner, maybe, is just inside the cover (7) |
| BUGBEAR | It means trouble to an insect and an animal (7) |
| SHELLAC | Type of resin obtained from a female insect and used as a varnish (7) |
| BEERMAT | Insect and rodent drink a little milk, under a pint (4,3) |
| BEERMUG | Insect and nothing more, Spooner's said, in drinking vessel (4,3) |
