| NORSE | Origin of the words "club" and "gun" |
| WVA | State with the words "Wild Wonderful" on its license plates: Abbr. |
| RYCOODER | Producer of the 1997 album "Buena Vista Social Club" |
| LESLIE | Nielsen of "The Naked Gun" |
| NED | Cartoon character who inspired the word "Flanderization" |
| IDEST | "In other words," classically |
| WOODPIGEON | Club's language discussed in flyer (4,6) |
| GREECE | Home to the poet Sappho and the island Lesbos, the origins of the words "sapphic" and "lesbian" |
| 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) |
| NEPALI | Language in which "Ho" and "Hoina" mean "yes" and "no" |
| WIDEST | Like "h" among "h," "i" and "j" |
| WATT | Unit commonly following "40," "60," "75" and "100" |
| HOPE | "___ is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul, / And sings the tune without the words, / And never stops at all" (Emily Dickinson) |
| BECCA | Kufrin of "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette" |
| CHINOOK | Language of the Pacific Northwest that's the origin of the word "potlatch" |
| MONETS | "The Magpie" and "The Wheat Field," for two |
| CZECH | Language that gives us "robot," "polka" and "Pilsner" |
| DUTCH | Language that gives us "cookie," "sleigh" and "Santa Claus" |
| JLO | Pop star in the rom-coms "The Wedding Planner" and "Maid in Manhattan" |
| EIEIO | Letters heard after "cow," "pig" and "horse" |
