| ULTIMO | Latin word used in formal correspondence for the previous month |
| HEREOF | Word used in formal documents meaning "concerning this" (6) |
| PALETTE | Help for artist emanating from father's correspondence, for the most part (7) |
| THIRTY | Needing water, not Howards End, for the previous clue (6) |
| ROSEUM | Latin word used in the scientific names of plants such as the rosy hyacinth-orchid and the rose geranium (6) |
| INFRA | Latin word used in textual annotation meaning lower down on the page or further on in the book |
| IBIDEM | Latin word used in an abbreviated form when citing a work already cited |
| INSTANT | In formal correspondence, of the present month |
| TUMULT | Upheaval of stomach in the previous month (6) |
| EPISTLE | I slept poorly under direction in formal correspondence (7) |
| MAY | Month that brings flowers after the previous month's showers |
| ULT | In the previous month: abbr. |
| RESULT | Before the previous month, engineers outcome (6) |
| ADULT | Notice how the previous month matured? (5) |
| IDEM | Latin word, used to mean 'the same (as previously mentioned)' (4) |
| MALE | Gender used in formal expressions (4) |
| SALVER | A tray, typically of silver and used in formal circumstances (6) |
| PATER | Latin word, used facetiously or as public-school slang, for one's male progenitor commonly called dad (5) |
| ERRATUM | Latin word used to describe a printing or typographical error (7) |
| ALTO | Latin word used to denote "high" clouds, flutes, saxes, voices etc (4) |
