| POTPOURRI | Word originally for a Spanish stew that is used to describe a fragrant mixture of dried petals and spices, a medley of tunes or a hotchpotch or miscellany (9) |
| WASTE | Cook a stew that is never eaten (5) |
| HOTPOT | Stew that is dished up at the Rovers Return (6) |
| PAELLA | A Spanish stew |
| TOM | A familiar abbreviation of a man's given name that is used to describe various things including a large chime, a long gun, a love apple, a male moggy or a turkey cock/gobbler (3) |
| PANACHE | Word originally for a helmet plume that is used to mean swagger or flamboyant confidence (7) |
| SPORT | A shortening of an old word for entertainment or fun that is used to describe a physical activity with set rules, such as polo, rugby or tennis (5) |
| SNOB | Word originally for a cobbler that came to mean a person of ordinary status, a townsman as opposed to Cambridge gownsman or an elitist (4) |
| THESAURUS | From the Greek meaning "treasure", a word originally for a dictionary that came to mean, since Roget's time, a book of synonyms (9) |
| CODE | Word originally for a collection or digest of laws, later a secret message or cryptogram cracked by means of a cipher; or, a system of signals such as Morse or Semaphore (4) |
| CLOSETS | Word originally for a king or queen's secret or private chambers within a palace, now used to mean cupboards or wardrobes (7) |
| STORY | Word originally for a historical account that came to mean a tale, real or imaginary, told for fun (5) |
| RECIPE | Word originally for a medical prescription, later a cookery formula with a list of ingredients (6) |
| ABORIGINE | What word is used to describe a person, animal or plant that has been in a country from earliest times? (9) |
| FORUM | Word originally for a marketplace, later used to mean a meeting place (5) |
| DORMANT | Which word is used to describe a volcano that is temporarily inactive? (7) |
| EGRET | A heron whose French name, "aigrette", is used to describe one of said wader's plumes; or, a feathery crown or "clock" of a dandelion (5) |
| VEGETABLE | Word that derives from "animated, enliven, excite", yet is used to describe an inanimate object in the form of a cabbage, carrot, cauliflower, courgette, cucumber or other edible part of a plant (9) |
| GARDENIA | A fragrant white flower with waxy petals and shiny leaves, titled after a botanist fittingly named for a pleasance or plot of plants, shrubs and trees (8) |
| ECHO | Oread whose name is used to describe a reflection of a sound (4) |
