| KLANG | German for "sound", used by some music theorists as a name for a "chord of nature" |
| THATSTHETICKET | With conspiracy theorist as hostage, five times he has lost it (5,3,6) |
| VOLVO | From the Latin word for "I roll," this was originally intended as a name for a ball bearing being developed by a Swedish company. Now this is a well-known automobile maker. |
| ETUDES | French for word for "studies" used as a name for works by Frederic Chopin, Claude Debussy and Gyorgy Ligeti, among others (6) |
| KITAB | Arabic for "book", often used as a name for a sacred book |
| RAGUSA | "Argosy", as a name for a large merchant ship, comes from this former name for Dubrovnik |
| ESPERANZA | Spanish word for "hope" used as a name for cities in Argentina, Mexico and Peru |
| ESTOC | French for "thrust", adopted as a name for a short sword, aka tuck (5) |
| TERRA | In the writings of Ursula Le Guin and others, what Latin word is often used as a name for Earth? (5) |
| PLACID | Still used as a name for a US lake (6) |
| LEAF | Maple - - - -, Canadian emblem used as a name for an old hosta cultivar (4) |
| TEG | Alternative to “hogget” as a name for a yearling sheep |
| ELIOT | "To be a poet is have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chords of emotion-a |
| NOUN | Word used as a name for something or person (4) |
| ANATOLE | As a name for a man, "Leo" is odd (7) |
| EVELYN | It's evenly distributed as a name for either sex (6) |
| AURAL | To be heard as a name for mountains (5) |
| RAMEAU | Jean-Philippe ___, Baroque composer and music theorist who replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera |
| CLARION | A trumpet with a shrill sound used to call men to arms (7) |
| IDEOGRAM | A symbol that represents a concept without indicating the sound used to say it (8) |
