| ENTROPY | Property equating to the level of disorder in a system |
| TOPUP | An amount added to the level of a drink, often bringing it to the brim (3,2) |
| BREADLINE | Led in bare rags to the level of poverty (5,4) |
| CYBELE | Phrygian 'Mother of all Gods' equating to the Greek Rhea or Demeter (6) |
| DYNAMIC | ____ pricing, selling goods at a value that changes according to the level of demand (7) |
| ASCENSUS | Ad honoris amplioris gradum ... primus ____, the first step up to the level of higher honour (vide Cic. Leg. 3.7) |
| DEBASE | Drag down to the level of seabed wreckage (6) |
| DIANA | Roman goddess, equating to the Greek Artemis, with a temple at Ephesus [Acts/KJV] (5) |
| COTEDAZUR | Area roughly equating to the French Riviera |
| MERCIA | Anglo-Saxon kingdom roughly equating to the modern-day Midlands |
| ALPHABET | A set of graphemes in a fixed order; or, rudiments in a system which combine to form a complex whole (8) |
| REYNOLDSNUMBER | Ratio designating type of flow of a fluid in a system (8,6) |
| SPIDER | Long-legged rest in snooker used to raise the cue above the level of the height of the ball (6) |
| DECK | The floor of a ship; one of the levels of a double-decker bus; or, another word for a pack of playing cards (4) |
| THREW | Projected conclusion of disorder in the West |
| CHAOS | State of disorder; In Greek mythology, the infinite space that existed before creation (5) |
| HANGOUT | Husband faces a new disorder in a much-frequented place (7) |
| ARACHNIDAN | Disorder in a handcar - a scorpion? |
| ANIMAL | Any one of around 8.7 million zoological species, of which 14 per cent have been formally described in a system of taxonomy originally devised by Carl Linnaeus (6) |
| INDEXCARD | One of a series of "notelets" on which memoranda are recorded and stored alphabetically in a system invented by Carl Linnaeus (5,4) |
