| TAUTONYM | Scientific name involving a repeated word |
| BROMOSELTZER | Old antacid name involving a German wine region? |
| FUGUE | Composition involving a repeated interwoven melody (5) |
| HAMRADIO | Amateur radio (with a meaty name) involving noncommercial two-way radio communications. Messages are sent either by voice or in International Morse Code. (3,5) |
| TYPE | Particular specimen which fixes a scientific name to a taxon; or, a printing block character/letter (4) |
| BISON | Mammal whose scientific name is just its name repeated |
| MOTH | A lepidopteran such as a cream wave, lace border, maiden's blush, purple-bordered gold, small scallop or vestal whose scientific name, Geometridae or geometer, means "earth measurer" (4) |
| PINNIPED | Scientific name for a seal or walrus (8) |
| ASCI | A scientific name for enlarged cells |
| QUAKINGASPENS | Q: What trees have the scientific name Populus tremuloides? A: ___ |
| ION | Saturn model with a scientific name |
| ARBOR | Scientific name for a tree, generally |
| OAT | Grain whose scientific name inspired the brand name Aveeno |
| NAEVUS | Scientific name for a birthmark or mole (6) |
| GULO | Word in the scientific name for wolverines, from the Latin for "glutton" |
| ERUCA | Stand a remedy on its head by using scientific name for rocket (5) |
| LITCHI | -- chinensis, scientific name for a Chinese fruit with whitish juicy pulp (6) |
| MOCK | - moon; bright patch on a lunar halo, also known by its scientific name paraselene (4) |
| WORMS | Invertebrate animals having soft, long bodies; a new cave variety was found in the Bay of Alcudia, Mallorca last year and given the scientific name of Pollentia perezi (5) |
| BAROMETER | Scientific name for a weather glass; or, any indicator of change (9) |
