| OXYMORON | From the Greek meaning "pointedly foolish", a figure of speech conjoining contradictory terms, such as "old news" (8) |
| COMEDYLINGO | Shop talk terms such as "joke map" and "gag hag" |
| EMPTYWORDS | Terms such as vacuum, void and vacancy |
| ASININE | Foolish, a number going round small island |
| ZODIAC | From the Greek meaning "sculptured animal figure", a belt of constellations in the night sky whose beasts include Aries the Ram, Leo the Lion and Sagittarius the Centaur (6) |
| METHOD | From the Greek meaning "pursuit of knowledge", a word originally for a prescribed medical treatment, later an orderly way of doing something such as following a recipe (6) |
| ASTRONOMY | Derived from the Greek meaning "law of the stars", the scientific study of celestial objects and the universe (9) |
| DRUPE | From the Greek meaning "olive", a botanical word for a stone fruit such as the aforementioned or the almond, apricot, cherry, damson, greengage, mirabelle or sloe (5) |
| ASTHMA | No jolly wheeze like the endless conjoining with young woman I'd abandoned (6) |
| THESAURUS | From the Greek meaning "treasure", a word originally for a dictionary that came to mean, since Roget's time, a book of synonyms (9) |
| BASILISK | From the Greek meaning "little king", a mythical serpent with a lethal gaze, often described in a bestiary, or, a heraldic cockatrice (8) |
| GALAXY | From the Greek meaning 'milk',a gravitationally bound system of billions of stars, grouped into one of four types by Edwin Hubble (6) |
| PHARMACY | From the Greek meaning "practice of the druggist", the art, science or technique of preparing and dispensing medicines (8) |
| OIL | From the Greek meaning "olive tree", a culinary ingredient traditionally derived from the pressed juice of said drupe fruit (3) |
| OSMIUM | From the Greek meaning "smell", due to the disagreeable odour of its tetroxide, the metallic element with the atomic number 76 (6) |
| ECOLOGY | From the Greek meaning "house", the study of the relationships between living organisms and their physical environments (7) |
| GNOMON | From the Greek meaning "carpenter's square", the shadow-caster of a sundial (6) |
| FOUR | Derived from the Greek meaning "season". a 24th part of a day (4) |
| EPIC | From the Greek meaning "word", a Homeric poem, for example; or, a set of events deemed comparable (4) |
| EAST | From the Greek meaning "dawn", the direction of the rising Sun (4) |
