| MEERSCHAUM | Soft off-white clayey sepiolite whose name, from "sea foam", alludes to a former belief that it was petrified oceanic spume; or, a tobacco pipe with a bowl made of this mineral (10) |
| APUS | Bird of Paradise constellation whose name refers to the former belief that said exotic avian was "footless", thus always airborne (4) |
| ATOM | An elementary particle so tiny that it was named for the original belief that it was "indivisible" or unsplittable (4) |
| MALARIA | Infectious disease named from the belief that it was caused by the unwholesome air in swampy districts |
| BUGBANE | Plant ironically named for a belief that it made bed fleas flee and insects buzz off, yet is a pollinating cohosh (7) |
| FLY | A fast stagecoach; a familiar spirit; a fishing lure; a flap, such as a tent-door or zip cover; or, a dipteran whose figurative presence in ointment alludes to a small but irritating flaw (3) |
| CORNET | Brass instrument whose name, from the Latin for "horn", refers to the substance from which it was originally made; or, a funnel-shaped thing, such as a cream horn or a gelato wafer (6) |
| CHERRY | A native British fruit whose figurative placement on the top of a cake alludes to a finishing touch to an already excellent situation (6) |
| RECANT | To withdraw a former belief or opinion (6) |
| BIFFIN | Red cooking apple whose name, from "ox for slaughter", alludes to its colour of raw beef; or, such a pome, baked and flattened in the form of a cake as a traditional Norfolk snack (6) |
| TRAP | Word for a snare; a door set in a floor; a light carriage on springs; or, igneous rock, such as basalt, whose name, from "stair", refers to its often step-like formation (4) |
| VAMP | Femme fatale whose name alludes to a bloodsucking corpse of the night (4) |
| PEACHY | Word, that alludes to a sweet pleasant nectarine-like fruit, meaning desirable, excellent, fine, good or wonderful (6) |
| SURF | Mass of sea foam formed by waves breaking on a shore; a ride on a wave; or, an illegal jaunt on the roof of a fast-moving train for excitement (4) |
| RECANTED | Disavowed a former belief (8) |
| RECANTS | Renounces (a former belief) (7) |
| RECANTER | One repudiating a former belief of crazy recreant (8) |
| CHIPMUNK | One of a "scurry" of cheekpouched sciurines whose name, from "head first", refers to its favoured method of descent from a tree (8) |
| TOMBOLA | Raffle or lotto of a fete or fair whose name, from Italian for "tumble, turn a somersault", refers to the revolving drum from which tickets are drawn (7) |
| CREPE | A thin fabric, pancake, rubber or tissue paper whose name, from Latin to Old French to English, highlights their shared characteristic of a crinkled, curled, frizzled or wrinkled texture (5) |
