Possible Clues:

• Queen to take off in pursuit of rear admiral?
• Flying insect; album by the Hollies
• Madame in a Puccini opera
• Comma, say
• What a caterpillar becomes
• Word that can precede the starts of the answers to the five starred clues
• Swimming style has fat go quickly
• *Caterpillar, after metamorphosis
• Image formed by connecting this puzzle's circled letters from A to N and then back to A
• It's what it does to another Rev