| KETO | Derived from a ketone (4) |
| DISC | Word derived from a quoit thrown in ancient Greek games, for a circular object such as a record, CD, centre of a daisy or the seemingly flat figure presented by the Sun or Moon (4) |
| CLUE | Derived from a word meaning "ball of thread", a hint or tip that helps to solve a mystery or a puzzle (4) |
| IKAT | Derived from a Malay word meaning to tie/bind, a traditional method of warp dyeing/weaving in Central Asia that was a favourite of the late Oscar de la Renta (4) |
| FILE | Word, derived from a string upon which documents were strung, for a folder for keeping papers in order; or, a line or row of people, soldiers or chessboard squares (4) |
| BLEU | Cordon -; derived from a blue ribbon worn by the knights of the Holy Ghost, a term for cookery of the highest class (4) |
| CORK | Stopper derived from a species of oak for a wine or olive oil bottle (4) |
| MACE | Spice derived from a nutmeg; or, a ceremonial staff such as the royal silver-gilt example dating back to Charles II's reign that is used by the House of Commons (4) |
| STAR | "Asterisk" is derived from a Greek word for a small what? (4) |
| LILO | Name for an inflatable rubber or plastic air mattress, derived from a trademark (4) (4) |
| ANIL | Pigment derived from a score-draw (4) |
| JUTE | "Golden fibre" derived from a plant cultivated for centuries in the Ganges delta, used for coffee/cocoa sacks, rope, hessian, old-style horse rugs and flooring (4) |
| TURF | Word synonymous with horse-racing derived from a common track surface (4) |
| ATOM | Derived from a Greek word proposed by Democritus meaning "uncuttable", any one of the 118 different types of ordinary matter of which 92 occur in nature (4) |
| CERN | Name derived from a French acronym for the European research organisation that is home to the Large Hadron Collider (4) |
| AHOY | Nautical hail possibly derived from a Viking war cry, proposed by Alexander Graham Bell as the standard telephone greeting (4) |
| SYNE | Popular New Year song derived from a poem by Robert Burns, Auld Lang _ (4) |
| IPOD | Brand name derived from a "2001 . . ." line |
| SOYA | Rich protein derived from a bean |
| AFRO | Hairstyle whose name is derived from a continent |
