| MESMER | German physician from whose name a |
| CHESS | From the Persian for "king", a game from whose name a word for a pattern of squares derives (5) |
| HOOK | Bolt, catch, clasp, fastener or latch from whose name a word for a memento-, miniature- or photographencasing pendant derives its name (4) |
| ETHER | From Greek for "upper air", the fifth classical element from whose name a word for airy, celestial, gossamer, heavenly or spiritual derives (5) |
| CHUB | A somewhat thick-bodied or stocky cyprinid fish from whose name a word for plump is perhaps derived (4) |
| GLOBES | Spherical maps of Earth from whose name a word for worldwide or universal derives; or, golden orbs (6) |
| SERIN | A finch from whose name, the French for "canary", a term for a barrel organ used to train songbirds is derived (5) |
| BOTTLE | Narrow-necked vessel from whose name the word for a sommelier, wine steward or more specifically a "butler" in charge of a cellar's flasks derives (6) |
| BOTOLPH | East Anglian saint, from whose name Boston is derived (7) |
| HOOPOES | With cinnamon or salmon-pink plumage, crested birds from whose name the word "dupe" derives (7) |
| MEGIDDO | Ancient and Biblical city of NW Palestine from whose name the word Armageddon is derived (7) |
| NOMINEE | A person in whose name a stock is registered |
| PHRENOLOGIST | A practitioner of a pseudoscientific discipline developed by German physician Franz Joseph Gall in 1796 |
| KOCH | Robert, German physician who was a founder of bacteriology (4) |
| MESMERISM | Hypnotic induction named after a German physician in 1734 (9) |
| HIPPOCRATES | Greek physician from Cos, known for swearing? |
| GALEN | Physician from Pergamum |
| MEDICO | Physician from foreign country dropping by for day (6) |
| STLUKE | Old physician from this country heartlessly pinched clothes |
| TOTHEOTHERSIDE | Classic 1967 song by a group whose names a hint to solving the eight bonus clues |
