| TONSILLITIS | Inflammation originating in the mouth |
| ROCKABILLY | Fast style of rock music originating in the south U.S. in the mid 50s (10) |
| CHACONNE | Type of dance piece originating in the late 16c, such as the final movement of Bach's Partita no. 2 in D minor for violin (8) |
| ORECCHIETTE | Pasta in the form of small curved discs of varying thickness, originating in the Apulia region of southern Italy; 'little ears' (11) |
| BLUES | Type of folk music originating in the US in the early 20c (5) |
| INTACT | Sound in the night originating in the abandoned attic (6) |
| ALKAHEST | Hypothetical universal solvent sought by the alchemists, originating in the writings of the Swiss physician Paracelsus (1493-1541) (8) |
| BRUIN | Name for a bear in children's stories, originating in the medieval epic Reynard The Fox; Dutch, 'brown' (5) |
| GRUNGE | Style of rock music originating in the US in the 1980s, characterised by a distorted guitar sound and angst-ridden lyrics (6) |
| KUMMEL | Sweet liqueur originating in the Netherlands; principally produced now in Germany, in whose language its name means 'caraway' (6) |
| MAXIXE | Dance, originating in the late 1860s, also called the Brazilian tango (6) |
| COMETS | Originating in the Oort Cloud or the Kuiper Belt, bodies with icy nuclei (6) |
| GAVOTTE | A dance resembling the minuet, originating in the French Alps (7) |
| RIOTINTO | River in Spain originating in the Sierra Morena mountains associated with copper mining (3,5) |
| HARLEQUIN | Stock character originating in the commedia dell'arte, represented in diamond patterned tights, wearing a black mask (9) |
| KEESHOND | Breed of dog of the spitz type originating in the Netherlands (8) |
| CHAMPAGNE | Sparkling wine originating in the French region of the same name (9) |
| SIROCCO | From the Arabic for "east wind", a hot and dusty Mediterranean "jugo" originating in the Sahara; a drying machine; or, any desert breeze (7) |
| SYLPH | Spirit of the air, as originating in the system of Swiss physician and alchemist Paracelsus (c. 1493-1541) (5) |
| CHOPSUEY | Chinese-style dish originating in the US whose name derives from the phrase mixed bits (4,4) |
