| LITHIUM | A soft, silvery metal that derives its name from the Greek for 'stone' (7) |
| COPPER | Patina-forming metal that derives its name from Cyprus where its was mined by the Romans (6) |
| BARIUM | Soft, silvery metal that rapidly tarnishes in air, whose name derives from the Greek for 'heavy' (6) |
| SCANDIUM | Soft silvery metal, Sc (8) |
| RINGLET | A corkscrew- or spiral-shaped curl of hair; a fairy dance in a circle; or, a velvety brown butterfly that derives its name from its small eye-spots (7) |
| BALLOON | Toy that derives its name from an originally linen-and-paper structure built by the Montgolfier brothers for carrying passengers in a basket (7) |
| ESCOLAR | Type of snake mackerel that derives its name from the rings around its eyes, thought suggestive of an academic's spectacles (7) |
| WORSTED | Type of cloth that derives its name from a village in Norfolk (7) |
| TILAPIA | Ubiquitous seafood choice that derives its name from "thiape," the Botswanan word for 5D |
| HONESTY | Flower that derives its nickname "money plant" from its coin-like seed pods; or, a word denoting a method of taking payments that relies on customer's trustworthiness (7) |
| CADMIUM | A soft, silvery-white metal that occurs in association with zinc ores (7) |
| GALLIUM | A soft, silvery-white metal discovered by Paul-Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran in 1875 (7) |
| EUGENIA | Girl's name from the Greek for "well-born" (7) |
| KNOT | Lovers' bond; a lump of toads; a nest of snakes; a tangle of threads; a twist of fate; a woven tapestry of herbs; or, a sandpiper that derives its name from a king whose royal wave failed to stop the |
| CUBE | Six-sided 3-D solid that derives its name from the Greek for "a die" (4) |
| BARBARA | Name from the Greek for "foreign" |
| BATH | From Germanic meaning "to warm", a word for a hot tub or hammam; or, a spa city in England that derives its name from its hot springs (4) |
| EOCENE | Geological epoch that derives its name from the Greek for dawn (6) |
| XENON | Heavy noble gas that derives its name from the Greek for strange (5) |
| MIMOSA | Flowering plant that derives its name from the Greek word for 'mimic' (6) |
