| THANE | This city's name is derived from a local Marathi word meaning "Police Check Post" |
| ACCRA | Which African capital's name is derived from a local word for "ants"? (5) |
| LASVEGAS | Despite its desert climate, this city's name means "the meadows" in Spanish |
| AMIENS | French city's name is translated |
| TEMPO | This word means in Italian "rate of speed," in reference to music. The Italian, in turn, is derived from a Latin word meaning "time." The first known use is c. 1724. |
| CARAVAN | One definition is: a number of people travelling together. It is derived from a Persian word meaning a group of desert travelers. |
| OCEAN | What word is derived from a Greek word meaning "great stream encircling the earth's disc"? (5) |
| XENON | Which chemical element's name is derived from a Greek word meaning "stranger"? (5) |
| JENGA | Game played with 54 wooden blocks, whose name is derived from a Swahili word meaning 'to build' (5) |
| PAISLEY | Also known as Persian Pickles by American quiltmakers, this motif is of Persian origin but its Western name is derived from a town in central Scotland |
| LEGO | Toy whose name is derived from a Danish phrase meaning "play well" |
| OCALA | City whose name is derived from a Timucua Indian name |
| STAR | "Asterisk" is derived from a Greek word for a small what? (4) |
| URANUS | Only planet whose name is derived from a figure from Greek mythology rather than Roman (6) |
| MAROON | What colour name is derived from a French word for chestnut? (6) |
| MORTGAGE | Loan whose name is derived from a French term meaning 'death pledge' (8) |
| AVOCADO | Fruit whose name is derived from a Nahuatl word for testicle |
| LAVA | First used in English in 1759, it is derived from a Neapolitan dialect word meaning "to fall." It describes what came out of, for example, Mount Vesuvius. |
| BOMBAY | The word Bollywood is a portmanteau of this city's former name and Hollywood. What was this city earlier called? |
| DAGWOODS | Food item whose name is derived from a comic strip |
