| TESTAROSSAS | Classic Ferraris that evolved into the 512TR (11) |
| INTER | The 166 was among the handful of Ferraris that carried this name (5) |
| MULSANNE | _ Turbo, the car that evolved into the Bentley Turbo R (8) |
| RESERVE | Conservation area such as any one of those established by Charles Rothschild that evolved into the 2,300 sites managed by the Wildlife Trusts (7) |
| PIPERGTT | Sports special introduced in the late 1960s that evolved into the P2 (5,3) |
| REGINAS | 1950s Daimlers that evolved into the DK400 (7) |
| TASMIN | ATVR that evolved into the 280i (6) |
| CORNICHES | Bentley convertibles that evolved into the Continental (9) |
| 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) |
| BRIDGES | Simple spanning causeways of logs or stepping-stones that evolved into the feats of engineering we know as aqueducts, pontoons, viaducts etc, ideally with no structural groans (7) |
| PIKELET | Welsh bara pyglyd "pitchy loaf" that evolved into the thin "poor fellow's" crumpet or Antipodean drop scone of today (7) |
| TINSELLY | Word that started with the dazzling concept of a scintilla or "spark" and evolved into the cheap love-it-or-loathe-it shimmering Christmas decoration synonymous with any gaudy glittering tawdry materi |
| SHAH | Persian king of the plundered jewel-encrusted "Peacock Throne", whose title evolved into the "check" that precedes a mate (4) |
| ROVERMETRO | Which supermini evolved into the 100 in the mid 1990s? (5,5) |
| CHIGNON | A "chain, iron collar, shackle" that evolved into a French-style bun, knotor roll at the nape of the neck (7) |
| TORCH | Old "twisted" straw wick that evolved into today's battery- powered flashlight, imagined glowing in the garden as the brash flame-flowered red-hot poker (5) |
| FLAVIAS | These cars evolved into the Lancia 2000 (7) |
| ECLAT | It evolved into the Lotus Excel (5) |
| SINGER | Whose SM1500 evolved into the Hunter? (6) |
| LATIN | Ancient language whose Vulgar form evolved into the Romance Languages (5) |
