| VIOLIN | Also called a fiddle, this is bowed instrument that evolved during the Renaissance from earlier bowed instruments: the medieval fiddle, the lira da braccio, and the rebec. (6) |
| TRIASSIC | The first dinosaurs evolved during this period, the first period following the Permian extinction. |
| DISH | In Hey Diddle Diddle The Cat And The Fiddle, this crockery item ran off with the spoon |
| CASSONE | A large Italian chest having a hinged lid and often decorated with a carving or painting that was revered during the Renaissance |
| DRAWING | Known to the Italians during the Renaissance by the term disegno, a line art technique using pencil, ink, charcoal or medium other than paint (7) |
| BOX | Pandora's jar was how the myth started. Then it became this during the Renaissance. |
| PIZZICATO | Plucking the strings of a violin (or other bowed instrument) with the finger |
| ALBERTI | Italian architect, humanist, artist, and cryptographer whose De pictura (On Painting) was the first account of the theory of linear perspective during the Renaissance (7) |
| SINOPIA | Reddish-brown natural earth pigment often used during the Renaissance to make the underpainting for frescoes (7) |
| MAJOLICA | Type of porous pottery glazed with bright metallic oxides that was extensively made in Italy during the Renaissance (8) |
| ERHU | A two-stringed bowed instrument sometimes called a Chinese violin (4) |
| HUNCH | 15th-century "push, shove" that evolved into a lump, a stooped posture and a thick piece of bread; also, a hint, an intuitive premonition and a gambler's gut feeling (5) |
| DOWN | Word that evolved from "hill" or "from the hill" to mean a descending direction or a lower position (4) |
| FAN | The fourth man in the ring during Bowe-Holyfield ll. (3) |
| FARO | A game of chance named after a corrupted form of "pharaoh", a figure represented on a playing card that evolved into the king of hearts (4) |
| NAPOLI | Italian name for the capital of Campania; a city that evolved from the Ancient Greek settlement Part |
| ECU | French coin during the Renaissance |
| DOUBLET | Jacket worn during the Renaissance |
| WEREWOLVES | Subjects of European trials during the Renaissance |
| LAZULI | Lapis ___, blue gem pulverized for paint during the Renaissance |
