| UNDERSUSPICION | Terrible pun in discourse is thought to have offended |
| IFWE | "___ shadows have offended..." (start of Puck's final speech) |
| ABSTRACT | Sailor's discourse is theoretical (8) |
| AMELIORATE | A mile off, discourse is better (10) |
| APOSTROPHE | Digression from a discourse is, perhaps, too complicated (10) |
| WILDCAT | This untamed cat, which is native to Eurasia and Africa, is thought to have given rise to the domestic cat. |
| THEEXPRESSIONOK | Van Buren is thought to have given rise to ___ |
| MAHON | Capital city of Minorca, in which mayonnaise is thought to have originated (5) |
| JABALPUR | Indian city in which snooker is thought to have originated |
| VERMEER | Dutch master whose treatment of shadow and light in his paintings including Girl Interrupted at her Music, Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Astronomer and The Lacemaker is thought to have been aided by |
| SNOOKER | This cue game, played on a billiard table with unnumbered balls, is thought to have been invented by British Army officers in India |
| BRUNEI | Islamic sultanate that, at its peak in the 16th century, is thought to have had control over most regions of Borneo (6) |
| PATMOS | Greek island in the Aegean Sea on which John the Apostle is thought to have written the Book of Revelation (6) |
| EUROPA | Discovered by Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei in 1610, this ice-covered moon is thought to have an ocean that could harbour life (6) |
| THECITADEL | 1937 AJ Cronin novel about a doctor's work in a mining town, which is thought to have influenced the NHS's creation |
| TREVISO | City in the Veneto region of Italy where the dessert tiramisu is thought to have originated (7) |
| FLAGS | Banners whose name is thought to have derived from the sound of something fluttering in the wind (5) |
| BUCHANAN | Ancient Scottish clan which is thought to have originated on the eastern side of Loch Lomond, in the 13th Century (8) |
| CORAL | Global warming is thought to have caused bleaching of this reef material |
| IRAQ | Where the Noah's Ark story is thought to have occurred, today |
