| DENOTE | Be a name for |
| OTIS | So, it could be a name (4) |
| ADAM | Hebrew word meaning "man", later taken to be a name (4) |
| RAGUSA | "Argosy", as a name for a large merchant ship, comes from this former name for Dubrovnik |
| KITAB | Arabic for "book", often used as a name for a sacred book |
| ETUDES | French for word for "studies" used as a name for works by Frederic Chopin, Claude Debussy and Gyorgy Ligeti, among others (6) |
| AFRICAN | Word linking with "lily" for a name for Agapanthus or with "violet" for Saintpaulia (7) |
| KLANG | German for "sound", used by some music theorists as a name for a "chord of nature" |
| MONDEGREEN | A "lady" in a misheard 17th-century ballad, now a name for misheard words, especially in song lyrics |
| MARIANA | For airman, a name for islands |
| LINDA | Jenny - a name for a girl (5) |
| MINERAL | Drink a digger has a name for (7) |
| CRIMEAN | Atrocity, a name for a war |
| GALLEON | Vessel a girl has a name for (7) |
| BOOMSLANG | From Afrikaans, a name for a tree snake |
| NATIVE | - bear; a name for a koala (6) |
| ROWAN | Argument over a name for a tree (5) |
| WOODNYMPH | A name for a mythological dryad (4,5) |
| CANASTA | Actors adopt a name for a game (7) |
| SPANIEL | Talk about a name for a dog (7) |
