| ATH | Abbr. used in football recruiting to denote a versatile, uh, player |
| ASTROTURF | Type of artificial sports surface used in football, e.g. (9) |
| TEE | Peg used in football and golf |
| BUTYL | Synthetic rubber used in footballs |
| ENCLAIR | A French phrase used to denote a telegram or message is written in ordinary language, rather than in cipher/code (2,5) |
| CHASSEUR | French word for "hunter", used in cookery to denote a cacciatore-like jus or relish of herbs, mushrooms, shallots and wine for game, poultry or wild fowl; or, historically, a liveried attendant of a h |
| ENPRISE | French phrase used in chess to denote a pawn exposed to capture (2,5) |
| MONGER | Word used to denote a dealer in a commodity such as fish or iron (6) |
| URBIETORBI | Standard opening of Roman proclamations now used to denote a papal address 'to the City and to the World' |
| 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) |
| SCAMP | Word for a highwayman in the 18th century that later came to denote a cheat, now a rascal (5) |
| SNOOZE | Word for a catnap, used to denote a button for dozing a clock's alarm (6) |
| VONGOLE | Italian plural of "clam", thus used as a culinary term to denote a classic garlicky al dente spaghetti dish, swimming in said shellfish (7) |
| ETAPE | French word to denote a stage in a race |
| TOY | Word for a plaything that is also used to denote a "teacup" dog (3) |
| ETAL | Latin abbr. used in lists of names |
| LTD | Business abbr. used in the U.K. |
| PPD | Abbr. used in describing rained-out baseball games |
| DOLL | Originally a pet form of the name Dorothy to denote a mistress, later a toy figurine, poppet or puppet (4) |
| THETA | Used to denote a constellation's eighth member, a polar coordinate or an angle, the eighth Greek letter (5) |
