| GENES | Factors that determine heredity |
| IMPONDERABLES | Factors that cannot be evaluated |
| PERSONALBAGGAGE | Emotional factors that may be impediments |
| TERROIR | In viticulture, the regional factors (soil, topography, climate etc.) that determine a wine's distinctive character (7) |
| ACOUSTICS | Qualities of a room that determine audibility (9) |
| FONTS | Choices that determine character traits |
| RATES | Speeds that determine the scales of payment? (5) |
| USPS | Abbreviation for the factors that highlight products or companies from their competitors (1,1,1,1) |
| INTHELAPOFTHEGODS | Open to chance; depending on factors that one cannot control (2,3,3,2,3,4) |
| LOCATION | It's one of three factors that all the same should influence property purchase (8) |
| KARMA | The effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation. (5) |
| ANTLERS | Stag's branched horns with points that determine the aforesaid animal's status as a royal, imperial, monarch etc (7) |
| GENESIS | Units that determine one's characteristics and one's group (7) |
| GPAS | Numbers that determine class ranks for high-schoolers: Abbr. |
| COEFFICIENT | Factor that measures some property (physics) |
| INFLATIONRATE | Economic factor that affects three puzzle answers |
| STIMULUS | Factor that elicits a response (8) |
| ASPECT | Factor that warped space and time (6) |
| CALISTAROL | Blood factor that can make you as thin as Ally McBeal? |
| GOLDENEYE | It's the hereditary factor that constrains elderly solvers to duck (6,3) |
