| WYNNE | Inventor of the Word-Cross |
| WATT | Unit of power named after the inventor of the word horsepower (4) |
| BUSYINTERSECTION | Where lots of words cross? |
| BUDGET | A pouch or wallet originally, later the Chancellor of the Exchequer's annual statement, hence the showing of a battered red box as a gesture to the origin of the word in question (6) |
| FOCACCIA | Most of the word from the Irish to the cold agents is for the Italians on the breadline (8) |
| GLEE | 'In the midst of the word he was trying to say, In the midst of his laughter and ..., He had softly and suddenly vanished away, For the Snark was a Boojum, you see' |
| TRUTHINESS | Subject of "The Word" on the first episode of "The Colbert Report" |
| EAGLE | An accipitrid bird of prey whose depiction as a church lectern stems from an old belief that said raptor was capable of staring directly at the sun, thus a symbol of the Word (5) |
| XMAS | With its first letter representing the initial chi of the Greek "Khristos" meaning "Christ", a short form of the word "Christmas" (4) |
| CHINOOK | Language of the Pacific Northwest that's the origin of the word "potlatch" |
| YANNY | Word heard by some listeners in a recent internet audio-illusion consisting of a sound bite of the word "laurel"(5) |
| VESPER | From the Latin for "evening" and root of the word "west", the name given to Venus at sunset (6) |
| UPWARDLY | Part of the derivation of the word 'yuppie', along with 'mobile' (8) |
| SHINGLE | In English, what is the only one-word anagram of the word English? (7) |
| QUIBBLE | From legal nuance to pun or paronomasia, today's meaning of the word ranges from carp and cavil triflingly to nit-pick to the point of absurdity (7) |
| EARTHLY | The meaning of the word terrestrial (7) |
| PROPHET | Speaker of the word of God (7) |
| NOUN | Part of speech of the word "crossword" |
| ISIS | "... what the meaning of the word ___" (Bill Clinton) |
| SHARP | *Pointed ... and the end of the word ladder |
