Related Clues:

• Developed form of life — the writer’s, in the past
• Young boxer at a stage where flighty one is not fully formed
• Ideal notion of this person's past
• Life stage originally represented by the circled letters, prior to metamorphosis
• Chrysalis, e.g
• Stage for a butterfly
• "Caterpillar into chrysalis, or ___. From thence into beauty": Hannibal Lecter
• Winged insect — amigo (anag)
• Stage in an insect's life cycle
• Cicada's stage
• Butterfly-to-be, while in a cocoon
• Fully-grown insect
• It's matured and gone off? Initially, yes
• Entomological specimen at university in Pennsylvania
• Transformative stage