| HOLMIUM | Metallic element whose name comes from the Latin for a Scandinavian capital |
| OSLO | 2017 Tony-winning Broadway play named for a Scandinavian capital |
| THALLIUM | Highly toxic metallic element whose name is derived from the Greek for a green shoot (8) |
| IODINE | Element whose name comes from the Greek for "purple" |
| PLATINUM | Element whose name comes from a Spanish diminutive for "silver" |
| IRIDIUM | Element whose name comes from the Greek for "rainbow" |
| ROSARY | Word, from the Latin for a garden of floribundas, damasks or other such blooms, for a string of prayer beads (6) |
| ARGON | Element whose name comes from Greek for "inactive" |
| FASCIST | Term describing the Italian government under Mussolini, derived from the Latin for a bundle of rods around an axe symbolising penal authority in ancient Rome (7) |
| SECULAR | From the Latin for "a lifetime, generation", a word meaning relating to or observed once in that period; or, non-religious (7) |
| CENT | Abbreviation of the Latin for 'a hundred', widely used as a currency unit (4) |
| LURID | From the Latin for "a wan or yellow colour", word originally meaning pale and dismal, but now unpleasantly bright in colour, garish, loud or vivid (5) |
| CHILIAD | From Late Latin for "a thousand years", a word for a millennium; or, the aggregate of 1,000 things (7) |
| ORCA | Sea creature whose genus name comes from the Latin for "of the kingdom of the dead" |
| OSLOBOATTOCHINA | Seagoing departure from a Scandinavian capital? |
| ASTATINE | Dangerously radioactive element whose name derives from the Greek for 'unstable' (8) |
| BARIUM | Element whose name is derived from the Greek for "heavy" |
| UVEA | Part of the eye whose name comes from the Latin word for "grape" |
| UVULA | Part of the throat whose name comes from the Latin for "little grape" |
| ANITAODAY | Singer whose last name is Pig Latin for a slang word for "money" |
