| DENOMINATIVE | Derived from a norm |
| ABERRANT | Departing from a norm |
| VARIATION | Activity that deviates from a norm or standard |
| PARAMOUNT | A horse following a norm that's superior to all others (9) |
| STANDARDIZE | Cause to conform to a norm |
| ASPARTAME | Artificial sweetener is as a norm dull |
| STANDARDISE | Make conform to a norm (11) |
| AVERAGEDROUGHT | Came up with a norm for the dry periods? |
| GARDENGNOME | Outside pottery character duly engaged, as a norm (6,5) |
| EXTREME | Far beyond a norm in quantity or amount or degree. (7) |
| BOURDON | The heaviest bell of a carillon; the drone of a bagpipe; or, derived from a French word meaning "bumblebee" or "buzz", a 16-foot stopped-flute in a pipe organ (7) |
| COTTAGE | Word, derived from a medieval term for a one-roomed peasant dwelling or a name for a dove-house, for a small country dwelling (7) |
| 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) |
| SPRING | Name, derived from a word originally used to refer to the origin of a stream or well where water rises naturally from the earth, for a season of the year (6) |
| POOTER | An entomologist's bottle for collecting insects; or, a word, derived from a character in Diary of a Nobody, for a petit bourgeois (6) |
| PIGEON | Derived from a French word for a young dove, the name of a bird related to the aforesaid culver, trained by a peristerophilist (6) |
| MELEGUETTA | Also known as grains of paradise, a spice derived from a plant in the ginger family with a flavour r |
| 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) |
| HOBBY | Derived from a word for a small horse, general term for a recreational pastime such as baking, calligraphy, cruciverbalism, DIY or scrapbooking (5) |
