| TAHITI | Island that's the origin of the chicken dish poulet fafa |
| LUISA | Opera star Tetrazzini (she of the chicken dish) |
| MARYLAND | US state the chicken dish is named after |
| CHINOOK | Language of the Pacific Northwest that's the origin of the word "potlatch" |
| TIBET | Region that's the origin of the Lhasa Apso dog breed |
| AFRICA | Continent that's the origin of the music genres highlife and mbaqanga |
| 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) |
| NULLIFIES | Abolishes work in full? That's the origin of socialism (9) |
| ESEL | German word (for "donkey") that's the origin of our word for a display stand |
| TINTORETTO | Artist born Jacopo Comin who painted Finding of the Body of St Mark and The Origin of the Milky Way (10) |
| ALPHA | The first Greek letter that, with the second letter "beta", forms the origin of the name given to a system of letters we use to write (5) |
| ADAMS | Astronomer who explained the origin of the Leonid meteor swarms, described the motion of the Moon and independently calculated Neptune's position, by mathematical rather than observational means (5) |
| ATHENS | In legend, a messenger ran about 40km from the town of Marathon to where, the feat said to be the origin of the marathon running event? (6) |
| BIRTHPLACE | The only place for new deliveries of The Origin of the Species (10) |
| ENGELS | Author of 1884's "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State" |
| DARWINIAN | Relating to the theory of the origin of the species (9) |
| ARRAN | West of Scotland island that's the location of Brodick Castle |
| ARUBA | Island that's the first word of the Beach Boys' "Kokomo" |
| AUTOMATISTS | Le Refus Global (Total Refusal): Quebec artists (spelling anglicized here) of the 1940s such as Paul-Emile Borduas whose manifesto on culture is considered the origin of the Quiet Revolution |
| GAMOW | Who (George ___), with Ralph Alpher and Hans Bethe, developed the "big bang" theory of the origin of the universe? (5) |
