Insect Quiz

[esmeralda]

7. Police singer is back in past tense. 5 letters
10. A German factory surrounds chaotic pastie. 9 letters
Any clues please I'm stumped. Thanks.

[cashier]

7 Gnats (Sting = stang past tense)

[elliemay1]

gnats

[dannyk13]

7. Sting is the singer, so work from that.

[dannyk13]

Cashier. OP asked for clues.

[cashier]

Sorry esmeralda I missed the clues bit when I first looked.

[elliemay1]

10 anag of D(German) + 4 letter word for a type of factory + 3 letter word for what a pasty is

[JJ109]

+another E ie De(utchland)

[elliemay1]

^ sorry, forgot the other E!

[esmeralda]

Many thanks to you all, now I can send it in.

[fiction-factory]

GNATS must of course be right but in my lifetime I have never heard or seen stang used as the past tense of sting. I know the past tense of swim can be swam (I swam) or swum (past participle/I've swum), but I would only ever use stung not stang

[elliemay1]

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/stang

[cashier]

It's archaic ff so fell oit of use a while ago.

[dannyk13]

Millipede