| BOOTES | From the Greek meaning "ox-driver", the Herdsman constellation (6) |
| GOAD | Ox driver |
| NOVICE | Month that's a danger to driver - the one with the N-plate (6) |
| ZODIAC | From the Greek meaning "sculptured animal figure", a belt of constellations in the night sky whose beasts include Aries the Ram, Leo the Lion and Sagittarius the Centaur (6) |
| RASCAL | Cars wrecked by a learner driver - the devil! (6) |
| OSMIUM | From the Greek meaning "smell", due to the disagreeable odour of its tetroxide, the metallic element with the atomic number 76 (6) |
| DROVER | Herdsman went by car to the top of the road (6) |
| GNOMON | From the Greek meaning "carpenter's square", the shadow-caster of a sundial (6) |
| PSYCHE | From the Greek meaning "soul", a mythical character whose love for Cupid is described in a tale by Apuleius that inspired Beauty and the Beast (6) |
| PODIUM | From the Greek meaning "foot", a platform used to honour the top three competitors in an athletic event (6) |
| THRONE | From the Greek meaning "elevated seat", an episcopal, monarchal or papal chair, sometimes raised upon a dais; or, the duties and power ascribed to a king or queen (6) |
| MARBLE | From the Greek meaning "to sparkle", a rock used in sculpture or architecture (6) |
| ANTHER | From the Greek meaning flower, a stamen's pollen-bearing part (6) |
| HELIUM | From the Greek meaning "sun", a gas used for lifting balloons (6) |
| DYNAMO | From the Greek meaning "power", a generator for converting mechanical energy into electricity (6) |
| URANIA | From the Greek meaning "heavenly", Muse of astronomy often represented with a celestial globe (6) |
| GALAXY | From the Greek meaning 'milk',a gravitationally bound system of billions of stars, grouped into one of four types by Edwin Hubble (6) |
| SCHIST | From the Greek meaning "to split", a metamorphic rock often containing feldspars, garnet porphyroblasts, mica or quartz (6) |
| METHOD | From the Greek meaning "pursuit of knowledge", a word originally for a prescribed medical treatment, later an orderly way of doing something such as following a recipe (6) |
| CRATER | From the Greek meaning "mixing bowl", a volcano's mouth; or, a hollow where a meteorite has fallen (6) |
