| DERIVATIONAL | Relating to development from a source or origin |
| EMANATE | To flow out, issue, or proceed, as from a source or origin. (7) |
| DERIVE | Trace from a source or origin (6) |
| ODDTERNOFEVENTS | Peculiar development from a seabird POV? |
| SNAPSHOTS | The result of developments from a sharpshooter? (9) |
| SEED | Word for a grain, kernel, nut, pip, stone or other sown propagule or embryo of a plant, thus a beginning, origin of an idea or a source; or, one of a contest's top contenders, scattered throughout a t |
| OFFSHOOT | Something that derives from a principal source or origin (8) |
| ROOT | Basic source or origin |
| FOUNT | Source or origin of nut-cracking (5) |
| RESOURCES | A source or supply from which a benefit is produced and that has some utility |
| BANE | A source or cause of evil (4) |
| MINE | A colliery, pit, quarry, shaft, tunnel or other excavation from which coal, diamonds, gold, tin or other precious metal or ore is dug; or, by extension, any rich source or abundant supply (4) |
| ORIGIN | From Latin for "to rise", the source or derivation of a name, river, word or anything else; or, one's ancestry (6) |
| CRADLE | Thought to be related to the German for "basket", a cot on rockers; or, by extension, infancy or origin (6) |
| INOCULATED | Gives a shot to one linked to development of consulate (10) |
| DISTAL | (anatomy) Situated farthest from point of attachment or origin, as of a limb or bone. |
| IGNORE | Turn a blind eye to development of region (6) |
| WHENCE | From a place, source, or cause |
| SPINOFF | Incidental development from some bowling at a single stump (4-3) |
| ROOTS | Radices anchoring plants; or, one's ancestry, belonging or origin (5) |