| YOYO | Toy whose name is used to describe some diets: Hyph. |
| COZY | Adjective used to describe some lobbyist-legislator relationships |
| GOODFAT | Positive term used to describe some oils |
| LOWCAL | Diet (hyph.) |
| LEGO | Toy whose name is Danish for "play well" |
| TITIAN | Famed Italian painter whose name is used to describe golden-red hair (6) |
| ECHO | Oread whose name is used to describe a reflection of a sound (4) |
| PYRRHUS | Greek king whose name is used to describe a victory which comes at unacceptably high cost (7) |
| MAGPIE | Corvid known collectively as a mischief whose name is used to refer to a chatterbox or a hoarder; the outermost-but-one ring on a target; or, slang for a halfpenny (6) |
| GUY | "Blast from the past" whose name is used to refer to a fellow, a joke, a lark, an oddly dressed figure or ridicule (3) |
| SPRUCE | Conifer whose name is used to mean dapper, neat, smart or trim (6) |
| EMERALD | A virid gem whose name is used to denote other green things including a dove, a dragonfly, a hummingbird, Ireland, a mango and a moth (7) |
| GOLIATH | Which biblical giant's name is used to describe things of enormous size, strength? (7) |
| BCE | Way to describe some old dates (abbr.) |
| LARGE | How to describe some globular gentlemen? (5) |
| INFIRM | Weak way to describe some office employees? (6) |
| TAMAGOTCHI | Nineties toy whose name includes the Japanese word for "egg" |
| ANT | Insect whose regional name "emmet" is used to describe Cornish holidaymakers (3) |
| AZURE | From "lapis lazuli", a cerulean colour whose name is used poetically to refer to a clear blue sky (5) |
| QUAIDORSAY | Street in Paris whose name is used figuratively to refer to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (4,6) |
