Excellent. Full of red herrings and a nice quirky logic

Very good gridding, tough but fair.

Excellent. Stumped me.

@Strunz Animals would have been accepted... I did try narrowing this down to insects to fit around beetle and cricket but most of them can't really be anything else so give the game away too easily. I guess fly would be one. Ticks aren't insects of course, and people would probably object if I insisted on "protostomes".

I liked this, you tried to be fair!