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3 To be full of eggs
8 To regrow a lost limb or extremity
9 A single egg
11 The basal segment of an insect's limb
12 PSG Newsletter editor (2, 5)
14 The classification of organisms in an ordered the divisions of the phasmid body system
15 Another name for nymph
17 Insect equivalent of a jaw
19 Scientific name for Macleay's Spectre, abbr.
20 [Second word of solution phrase]
21 [Fourth word of solution phrase]
23 Phasmid Study Group
25 Having external skeleton and jointed limbs
27 The state of playing dead
28 A deception, such as camouflage or mimicry
29 Relating to the underside
31 Organism living in or on another
32 The process of recreating lost or damaged tissues
33 A phasmid's "lower lip", supporting the labial palps
36 To change, from one form to another
38 One of a pair of modified limbs acting as accessories to the jaws
39 One of the four larger Sunda Islands of Indonesia
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1 Scientific term meaning unarmed or smooth
2 Foremost major division of the phasmid body
4 Ian's surname (not Bushell, the other one!)
5 Relating to the back or upper half
6 Living in trees
7 Any one of the divisions of the phasmid body
10 A place for scientific study or experiment
13 The order of insects containing grasshoppers
16 Male extremity used to hold a female
17 The underside of the last part of the thorax
18 Frontmost of a pair of wings
22 Number of major body divisions
23 Behind or to the rear
24 [First word of solution phrase]
26 [Third word of solution phrase]
27 The cap on an ovum
30 A spine or spur; and a common plant
34 [Last word of solution phrase]
35 Opposite gender to female
37 Plural name for phasmid eggs
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Cryptic clues
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3 Great.. shortly David loses his head, full to burst
8 The Doctor can do this to lost limbs
9 An egg's capacity, without the French
11 Coax damaged hip-joint
12 The editor sounds like the chief bread cook (2,5)
14 The levy's not off? OMG says the atheist
15 Sounds hot and heavy, but is actually nymph-like
17 Bite with them and I bleed
19 He should phone home to Australia, briefly
20 [Second word of solution phrase]
21 [Fourth word of solution phrase]
23 Initially, you're this meeting
25 Having its skeleton outside, had torpor
27 Keep still in the mixed up stay place
28 Plan to deceive, part of our use
29 100 to 5 the red line's out in front (or underneath)
31 Blood-sucker living beside the place
32 It's about the name of the game
33 Mix-up in Malibu, holding the palps
36 The little clay man changes shape
38 Mad Max meets Godzilla around the side of Jaws
39 Wise Saul confused by Necrosia's home in Indonesia
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1 Scientifically, there's no point to it
2 This brainbox leads the body
4 Fitch follows him up Kinabalu
5 Door seal missing some vowels on the back
6 Right ASBO for tree dwellers - not imaginary
7 The body's divided into an orange slice
10 Place of prayer follows shortened socialist party
13 These insects are a poor threat
16 They're gripping, at the end
17 Ma must enter below the last segment
18 One of the lead pair can grow fine in a flap
22 A number of PSG letters mixed there
23 A typo results in wrong delivery at the back
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26 [Third word of solution phrase]
27 Confused cult aim up at egg cap
30 Acanthomenexenus spurred on to many plants
34 [Last word of solution phrase]
35 We hear the postman brings this
37 We hear the contents of an eggbox are finished
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