| 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) |
| ABR | Like a dictionary that doesn't weigh 20 lbs. |
| PARAGON | Mean, since mid-teenage, to be a model (7) |
| SYNE | It means "since," in a New Year's song |
| AIRMAIL | Communication means since 1911 |
| CANTEEN | From the Italian meaning "wine cellar", a word originally for a shop in a barracks selling liquor and provisions to troops that later came to mean a soldier's water bottle (7) |
| METHOD | From the Greek meaning "pursuit of knowledge", a word originally for a prescribed medical treatment, later an established systematic procedure for accomplishing a particular task (6) |
| CAGE | Word for a hollow that came to mean a basket for fowls, a bottle-holder, a coop, a corf, a hutch, a netted goal, a prison cell or a squirrel's drey (4) |
| TEAM | Meaning "childbearing", a word originally for a brood or litter, later a set of draught animals working in a harness together; a flight of ducks or geese; or, a squad of athletes (4) |
| RACE | From the Old Norse meaning "current", a word originally for a rapid forward movement, later a channel or a contest of speed (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) |
| JUMPER | Word for a sailor's loose outer jacket that came to mean a woollen jersey in the UK or a pinafore dress in the US; a quarry drill; a crude sled; or, a horse for puissance, e.g. (6) |
| BANK | From "bench", a word for a money-dealer's table or counter that came to mean an establishment for the custody of money; a tier of oars; a row of keys; or, a sloped side of a river (4) |
| TISSUE | From the Old French "to weave", a word originally for a rich material interwoven with gold or silver threads, later a disposable handkerchief (6) |
| PANE | Word originally for a rag or a piece of cloth that later came to mean a division of a window or its sheet of glass; or, in philately, a page of stamps from a booklet (4) |
| ETHER | From the Greek for "upper air", a word originally used to refer to matter once believed to permeate all space beyond the moon, later a distinctively sweet-scented volatile liquid (5) |
| FATE | From Latin for "that which has been spoken", a word for the judgment or sentence of the gods that came to mean a person's "lot" (4) |
| DEER | From the Indo-European meaning "breathing creature", a word originally for any four-footed animal, later the ruminant also known as a brocket, doe, fawn, hart, pricket or stag (4) |
| PILOT | Based on the Greek for "oar, rudder", a word originally for the steersman of a ship, later an aviator, hot-air balloonist or jockey (5) |
| RIOT | From the French for "quarrel", a word originally for dissolute living, later a fracas by an unruly mob (4) |
