| MEAGER | Word from the Latin for "lean" |
| TIGHTENONESBELT | Prepare for lean times |
| ORNAMENTAL | Cosmetic surgery's needed for lean matron |
| JACKSPRAT | Knaves have part rewritten for lean meat eater (4,5) |
| ENTAIL | Call for lean information technology (6) |
| SCRAGS | Bits of sheep for lean people |
| TIGHTENYOURBELT | "Get ready for lean times" |
| INCLINATION | A liking for lean (11) |
| EST | Suffix for lean or mean |
| RUT | Word, from the Latin for "roar" in reference to the clamour of stags when challenging rivals, for the annual mating season of said animals and other ruminant mammalians (3) |
| LETTER | Word, from the Latin for "culture, epistle, learning, literature" and connected to "leather writing material", for any one of the alphabetic characters from A to Z (6) |
| VELARIUM | Word, from the Latin for "covering, curtain, sail, veil", for a large awning used in Roman times, particularly in amphitheatres like the Colosseum (8) |
| SPIRACLE | Word, from the Latin for "breath", for a cartilaginous fish's oxygen inlet, an insect's breathing pore, a tadpole's water inlet or a whale's blowhole, thus a geological vent for exhaling steam (8) |
| THIRST | Word, from the Latin for "to dry, to parch", for a parched longing, whether for water or wisdom (6) |
| OPT | Word from the Latin for 'wish for' |
| ROSARY | Word, from the Latin for a garden of floribundas, damasks or other such blooms, for a string of prayer beads (6) |
| CIRRI | Word, from the Latin for "crimped locks of hair, fringes, tendrils, tufts", for clouds of frozen crystals forming feathery, filamentous, tufted or wispy streaks called mares'-tails (5) |
| AFFLATUS | Word, from the Latin for "breathe, to be blown upon", for divine creative inspiration (8) |
| AREA | English word from the Latin for "courtyard" |
| TUBA | Word from the Latin for "trumpet" |
