| SACCHARIN | Artificial sweetener discovered by Constantin Fahlberg in 1879, when he noticed a sweet taste on his hand while working with coal tar derivatives |
| ESAU | He noticed this hairy brother from Genesis in conversation |
| ETHNOCIDE | He noticed creeping destruction of cultural identity (9) |
| SYRUPTITIOUS | Having a sweet taste that kind of sneaks up on you? |
| SUGAR | It has a sweet taste |
| MELON | Big round fruit with a sweet taste (5) |
| PAPILLA | It distinguishes taste on tongue when father takes aspirin, say, with sip of acid (7) |
| DORITO | "The loudest taste on earth" snack item |
| DORITOS | They have "the loudest taste on earth," according to ads |
| ASPARTAME | Artificial sweetener, approximately 200 times sweeter than sugar, discovered by US chemist James M. Schlatter in 1965 (9) |
| LUSCIOUS | Sweet taste for lawyer coming across debt in Luxembourg Square (8) |
| BRANCUSI | Constantin, sculptor noted for his abstract sculptures of heads and birds in flight (8) |
| SCANDIUM | A silvery metal that was discovered by Lars Fredrik Nilson in 1879 (8) |
| PAULKLEE | Swiss painter born in 1879 who has a museum in Bern dedicated to his work (4,4) |
| KLEE | Paul, Swiss-German artist born in 1879 who has a museum in Bern dedicated to his work (4) |
| EUGENEONEGIN | 1833 'novel in verse' by Russian author Alexander Pushkin adapted into an opera by Tchaikovsky in 1879 (6,6) |
| OKINAWA | Largest of the Ryukyu Islands, it was annexed by Japan in 1879 and invaded by US forces in 1945 |
| SEVEN | Noticed a number in a number (5) |
| XYLITOL | Crystalline artificial sweetener derived from wood sugar, used in foods as the additive E967 (7) |
| PERFECTED | The rep noticed a defect in it but now it's finished properly (9) |
