| SUMPSIMUS | Taken from a Latin prayer, a term for the correct equivalent of an incorrect but popular expression |
| REAL | Lear was moved for the correct thing! (4) |
| RBIS | Incorrect but common baseball abbr. |
| PATER | Object of a Latin prayer |
| ERROR | The occurrence of an incorrect result on a computer (5) |
| MISSAL | Girl with a Latin prayer book (6) |
| RETRACTION | Withdrawal of an incorrect statement, issue a ... |
| ACETABULUM | Coming from a Latin word for a vinegar cup, what is the socket of the hipbone that the head of the f |
| FARM | From a Latin word originally used to denote a tax or rent, a tract of land for the cultivation of crops or rearing of livestock, including its associated barns and homestead (4) |
| DIARY | From a Latin word for "jour", a record of one's engagements, events and experiences logged in a journal of the same name (5) |
| DACTYLIOLOGY | From Greek for "finger", a term for the study or lore of finger-rings or of engraved antique gems (12) |
| TELOMERE | Sometimes described as the biological equivalent of an aglet that prevents a shoelace from fraying, the protective tip of a chromosome (8) |
| PLAINS | A term for the many Native American tribes once occupying an area from the Mississippi river to the Rocky mountains (6,7) |
| INDIANS | A term for the many Native American tribes once occupying an area from the Mississippi river to the Rocky mountains (6,7) |
| AZALEA | "Royalty of the garden" flower's name, whose first two letters hint at a term for the alphabet or for a road map (6) |
| SALOPIANS | A term for the natives or inhabitants of the county of Shropshire (9) |
| ETAGE | French word for a floor or storey; or, a term for the grouping of cloud height in meteorology (5) |
| ASTACOLOGY | From Greek for "lobster", a term for the science or study of crayfish (10) |
| VERNACULAR | Name for a native language, derived from a Latin word for a home-born slave |
| BOON | From "prayer", a favour or request; a blessing; or, from "good", a word meaning close, convivial or jovial (4) |