| PESTLE | Word from the Latin for 'crush' |
| PESTO | Word from the Italian for "crush" |
| HOTS | Have the ___ for (crush on) |
| OPPRESS | Pop singers reformed, giving up gin fizz for crush (7) |
| STEAMROLLER | A mere stroll diverted for crush (5,6) |
| 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" |
| COLLEGE | Word from the Latin for "community" |
| EASEL | Word from the Latin for "donkey" |
| REMORSE | Word from the Latin for "bite again" |
| TENOR | Word from the Latin for "hold" |
