| IDENTIFIABLE | Capable of being distinguished and named (12) |
| ADAMSEDGWICK | 19th-century English geologist who proposed and named the Cambrian period, part of the Palaeozoic era (4,8) |
| ASHESTOASHES | BBC drama series set in the early 80s and named after a David Bowie song. (5,2,5) |
| HALLEYSCOMET | Astronomical object last observed from earth in 1986 and named after an English astronomer (7,5) |
| IDENTIFIED | Named as being distinguished (10) |
| EMINENT | Mine are given a ten for being distinguished (7) |
| PEDIGREE | Taunt accepted by Dad in France, English being distinguished (8) |
| THEGREATAND | Those distinguished and worthy (3,5,3,3,4) |
| NOTABLE | Distinguished and incompetent (7) |
| OFNOTE | Distinguished and crotchety, perhaps? (2,4) |
| NOTED | Take a nasty ned to see the distinguished and eminent (5) |
| EXIMIUM | Distinguished and select choice: praeclarum, egregium, magnificum |
| DEFINED | Distinguished and very good indeed |
| LEDA | Moon that was discovered in 1974 and named for a woman in Greek myth who was believed to have been the mother (by Zeus, who had seduced her in the form of a swan) of Pollux and of Helen (4) |
| SELWYN | College of Cambridge University, founded in 1882 and named after a former bishop of Lichfield (6) |
| UMBRIEL | Moon of Uranus discovered by English astronomer William Lassell in 1851 and named after a character in Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock (1712) |
| CARME | Small moon (with a radius of 14 miles) discovered in 1938 by Seth Barnes Nicholson and named for the mother of the Cretan deity Britomartis (5) |
| MEXACALI | City of NW Mexico across the border from, and named in complement to, the Californian city of Calexico (8) |
| INCITED | Favoured and named and given encouragement |
| DESILU | TV studio founded by, and named after, Arnaz and Ball |
