| FRANCESCA | Italian female given name derived from a Latin male name meaning 'the Frenchman' (9) |
| URSULA | Female given name, derived from a diminutive of the Latin word for bear (6) |
| ISLA | Female given name derived from an island off the west coast of Scotland (4) |
| PROBLEM | Inquiry about Latin male producing difficulty (7) |
| LITHE | Loose-limbed Latin male under it (5) |
| EPONYMOUS | Having a name derived from a person, self-titled (9) |
| SUMPSIMUS | Taken from a Latin prayer, a term for the correct equivalent of an incorrect but popular expression |
| SCRUTOIRE | An antique French desk, from a Latin root meaning "room to write" (9) |
| TEMPO | This word means in Italian "rate of speed," in reference to music. The Italian, in turn, is derived from a Latin word meaning "time." The first known use is c. 1724. |
| PETITFOUR | Indulged Italian female with our small sweet cake |
| VERNACULAR | Name for a native language, derived from a Latin word for a home-born slave |
| NIGHTFALL | Dusk near, female given shelter by giant (9) |
| HILARY | Female given name which comes from the Latin hilarious, meaning cheerful or merry (6) |
| OPENFACED | Ingenuous old bird, female, given coat |
| PHENOMENA | Female given warning, wearing dad's spectacles |
| SPRING | Name, derived from a word originally used to refer to the origin of a stream or well where water rises naturally from the earth, for a season of the year (6) |
| EQUATOR | Word, derived from a Latin phrase roughly meaning "circle levelling day and night", for the imaginary line around Earth at 0Adegrees latitude (7) |
| MELISSA | Given name derived from the Greek for "honey"; aimless (anag.) (7) |
| TIPPEDOFF | Dumped old females given confidential advice? |
| ERICA | Female given name, and plant from the Heath genus (5) |
