| XEROX | Brand name that came to mean "copy" |
| USAIR | Name that came off planes in 1997 |
| ROSE | The name that came up (4) |
| STRIKE | Anglo-Saxon word for "to go or flow" or "to rub lightly" that came to mean a hit; an attack by aircraft; a raid; a find, as in gold, luck or oil; or, a downing of work tools in protest (6) |
| ALOOF | Nautical term for "to windward" that came to mean "distant" (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) |
| CHARITY | Latin word for "dear" that came to mean "Christian love of one's fellows", later almsgiving or donations of food, goods or money to those in need (7) |
| JOCKEY | A pet form of a generic name for a lad, ordinary man or underling that came to mean a mounted courier, horse-dealer and later an equestrian "pilot" such as a steeplechaser (6) |
| FATE | From Latin for "that which has been spoken", a word for the judgment or sentence of the gods that came to mean a person's "lot" (4) |
| PRESTIGE | Word for an illusion or conjuring trick originally, that came to mean respect and admiration owing to quality, status, success, wealth etc (8) |
| CHUM | Oxford University slang for a roommate or chamber-fellow that came to mean a friend (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) |
| STORY | Word originally for a historical account that came to mean a tale, real or imaginary, told for fun (5) |
| CARPET | Word originally for a tablecloth or bedcover that came to mean a woven floor covering or a layer of flowers or snow resembling thus (6) |
| BARDS | Word originally for Celtic poets, musicians and singers that came to mean poets generally or those who have won at an eisteddfod (5) |
| MAIL | Word originally for a bag or wallet that came to mean a postal system or the batch of letters and parcels thus conveyed (4) |
| CIRCUS | From the Latin meaning "ring", a word that came to mean a travelling company of performers (6) |
| SPIRES | Old English word for tall slender stems or blades of grass that came to mean long tapering objects, such as the tops of church steeples (6) |
| SNUG | An old sailors' term meaning "shipshape, prepared for bad weather" that came to mean "cosy"; or, a comfortable room in a pub (4) |
| CHARISMA | From Greek via ecclesiastical Latin for "favour, grace", a word for a divinely conferred power or talent that came to mean attraction, charm, magnetism or personal allure (8) |
