| 100% | CRICKETS | 8 | Grasshopper-like insects |
| 78% | ICKY | 4 | Like squashed insects |
| 69% | INFEST | 6 | Overrun, like insects and rats do |
| 68% | MOTH | 4 | Insect that likes lamps |
| 66% | ANT | 3 | Insect that sounds like family |
| 66% | BEE | 3 | Insect sounds like a character |
| 65% | BEE | 3 | Insect that sounds like a letter |
| 65% | GNAT | 4 | Insect that sounds like 13-Across |
| 63% | EARWIG | 6 | Insect with appendages that look like pincers |
| 63% | MANTIS | 6 | Insect that looks like it's "praying" |
| 63% | CREPT | 5 | Moved slowly, like an insect |
| 63% | BUG | 3 | Small insect, like an ant |
| 63% | CRICKET | 7 | Noisy chirping insect, like Jiminy |
| 63% | BUG | 3 | Small insect, like a beetle |
| 63% | PESKY | 5 | Irksome, like a persistent insect |
| 62% | BLOWFLIES | 9 | Insects like bluebottles that lay larvae on meat |
| 61% | CRICKETS | 8 | Brown jumping insects, similar to grasshoppers |
| 61% | PUPAL | 5 | Like one stage in an insect's life |
| 61% | BUSYBEE | 7 | Occupied like a honey-collecting insect |
| 61% | BLOWFLY | 7 | Winged insect that likes decaying meat |
| 59% | BUTTERFLYSHRIMP | 15 | Frozen shellfish shaped like an airborne insect |
| 59% | BETEL | 5 | Areca nut that sounds like an insect |
| 58% | COCKROACH | 9 | Beetle-like insect |
| 58% | MOTH | 4 | Butterfly-like insect |
| 58% | MIDGE | 5 | Mosquito-like insect |
| 58% | CRICKET | 7 | A leaping noisy insect mistaken for a grasshopper |
| 58% | BEE | 3 | Insect whose name sounds like a letter of the alphabet |
| 57% | NAT | 3 | Boy's nickname that sounds like an insect |
| 57% | ADAMANT | 7 | English New Wave artist named like an insect |
| 57% | GNAT | 4 | Tiny flying insect that sounds like 17-Across |