| BOYCOTT | Charles Cunningham -, land agent in Ireland whose surname has come to mean a refusal to do business with another party (7) |
| CAKEWALK | A strutting dance popular in the 19th century whose name has come to mean a name has come to mean a very easy task (8) |
| COTERIE | A clan of prairie dogs; or, a French word, originally for a number of peasants holding land jointly from a lord, that has come to mean an exclusive circle or clique (7) |
| ANTIPODES | From the Greek for "feet opposite", what has come to mean a faraway place? (9) |
| LOAF | Word from the Old English for bread that has come to mean a baked quantity of the aforesaid food (4) |
| SVENGALI | Character created by George du Maurier; it has come to mean a manipulative older man (8) |
| DENIAL | Refusal to do business around N. Ireland (6) |
| LEANNE | Battersby, Toyah's sister in Corrie, whose surname has also been Tilsley and Barlow (6) |
| COSSET | Old word for a "cottage-dweller", such as a hand-reared lamb or cade, that has come to mean to featherbed, pamper, pet, indulge, mollycoddle or wait upon as if a veritable maid (6) |
| WALTERMITTY | Literature: What character's name has come to mean a timid daydreamer? |
| HECTOR | The name of which Trojan warrior has come to mean "talk to in a bullying way"? (6) |
| LADYBOUNTIFUL | Character in Farquhar's The Beaux" Stratagem whose name has come to mean any woman dispensing charit |
| LOTHARIO | Seducer in the Nicholas Rowe play The Fair Penitent whose name has come to mean any rake or libertin |
| DROGHEDA | Port town in County Louth in Ireland whose name means 'bridge at the ford' (8) |
| GARTH | Caleb, land agent in George Eliot's Middlemarch (5) |
| RITA | Veteran Corrie lady whose surname has been Fairclough, Sullivan and Tanner (4) |
| PEREZ | Oscar nominee Rosie whose surname has the same consonants as "prize" |
| XANTHIPPE | Wife of Socrates, whose name has come to mean any quarrelsome woman (9) |
| SNAKEOIL | Dubious 19th century medicine which has come to mean fraudulent products in general. (5,3) |
| JABBERWOCKY | Title of a poem by Lewis Carroll which has come to mean nonsense (11) |
