| XANTHIPPE | Wife of Socrates, whose name has come to mean any quarrelsome woman (9) |
| LADYBOUNTIFUL | Character in Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem whose name has come to mean any woman dispensing charity (4,9) |
| LOTHARIO | Seducer in the Nicholas Rowe play The Fair Penitent whose name has come to mean any rake or libertin |
| HOLLYWOOD | Area of Los Angeles whose name has come to be a shorthand reference for the US film industry (9) |
| ANTIPODES | From the Greek for "feet opposite", what has come to mean a faraway place? (9) |
| WALTERMITTY | Literature: What character's name has come to mean a timid daydreamer? |
| SASSENACH | Scottish word which originally meant 'lowlander', but now means any English person (9) |
| BELLACOSE | Quarrelsome woman? |
| CATAMARAN | Quarrelsome woman's twin-hulled boat |
| HECTOR | The name of which Trojan warrior has come to mean "talk to in a bullying way"? (6) |
| BOYCOTT | Charles Cunningham ?, land agent in Ireland whose surname has come to mean a refusal to do business |
| NEMESIS | The name of this Greek mythological figure has come to mean arch-enemy. (7) |
| TARGA | Porsche model whose name came to mean any semi-convertible car with a roll bar behind the seats |
| NECTAR | Word originally for the gods' drink of eternal life in mythology that has come to mean essence collected from flowers by pollinators including bees that forms the basis of honey (6) |
| COTERIE | A clan of prairie dogs; or, a French word, originally for a number of peasants holding land jointly from a lord, that has come to mean an exclusive circle or clique (7) |
| JABBERWOCKY | Title of a poem by Lewis Carroll which has come to mean nonsense (11) |
| YENTE | Yiddish name that has come to mean "gossip" |
| LOAF | Word from the Old English for bread that has come to mean a baked quantity of the aforesaid food (4) |
| LISTS | Word originally for borders or edges that has come to mean enumerations of connected items or names, written consecutively (5) |
| AVERAGE | Mean the name has come back to fashion (7) |
