| HYPONYM | A more specific word, such as “chair” for “furniture” |
| METONYM | Word such as “wheels”, referring to a car, or “crown”, referring to the monarchy |
| AGENTNOUN | Word such as “solver” or “reader” |
| AUXILIARYVERB | Word such as “be”, “do” or “have” |
| HOUND | Word for any dog originally, later a more specific canine bred for hunting, such as a beagle; a contemptible or despicable person; a pursuer in a paper chase; or, any assiduous seeker (5) |
| FISH | Word originally for any creature living in water as opposed to a "beast of the field" or a "bird of the air", later a more specific aquatic vertebrate, such as a minnow, salmon or trout (4) |
| FOWL | A word originally used to refer to any bird, later a more specific gallinacean of the poultry kind, such as a chicken, duck, goose, partridge, pheasant or turkey (4) |
| CAN | Word for any vessel for liquid originally, now a more specific cylindrical metal "tin" for baked beans, beer, fruit, paint, pop, soup etc (3) |
| ACID | Word, apparently introduced by scientist Francis Bacon, for any sour-tasting substance, or for one with a more specific pH of less than 7 (4) |
| OAST | From "burn, fire", word for any kiln originally, later a more specific "cockle" for drying hops or malt (4) |
| CEDILLA | Mark under the “C” in words such as “façade” |
| MURRAYWALKER | Formula One commentator famed for gaffes such as “Do my eyes deceive me, or is Senna’s car sounding a bit rough?” |
| SCIENCE | From the Latin for "to know", a word for any branch of knowledge including the arts originally, later for the more specific study of the natural and physical world (7) |
| SNOUTS | Word for animals' muzzles, birds' beaks or elephants' trunks originally, later for the more specific noses of beasts such as hedgehogs or pigs (6) |
| TAUTOLOGY | Use of redundant wording in phrases such as “opening introduction” |
| SCRIPTURE | Word for handwriting, anything written or for the more specific sacred writings of a religion (9) |
| EYERHYME | Pair such as “bone” and “gone” or “cough” and “dough” |
| STOCHASTIC | As a description of a variable in statistics, another word for “random” |
| TERM | Specific word for part of school year (4) |
| GLOBE | Word once used to describe a cannonball, comet, eyeball, mass of people or almost anything spherical, later the more specific ball-shaped map of Earth or the heavens (5) |
