| LEPUS | Latin word for a jackrabbit, hence the name of the Hare constellation (5) |
| HALMA | A jump in a Greek pentathlon, hence the name of a game whereby players' "men" jump over opposing pieces (5) |
| EARS | A jackrabbit's two sensitive sound-detectors |
| HEANEY | Poet who collaborated with friends Ted Hughes and Barn'e Cooke and translated from Middle English "The Names of the Hare" (6) |
| AESOP | Greek writer of the fable of the hare and the tortoise or the fox and the grapes |
| EQUUS | Latin word for a knight in chess; or, a member of an ancient Roman order of elite horsemen ranking below a senator (5) |
| ARBYS | Restaurant chain founded by the Raffel brothers (hence the name) |
| DIGIT | Latin word for a finger or a toe; or, any of the numerals from 0 to 9 (5) |
| ARBOR | Latin word for a tree, used in scientific contexts to refer to a trunk-like axle, beam, mandrel, shaft or spindle in a machine or a lathe (5) |
| EXPAT | Abbreviation of a Latin word for a person who relocates overseas (5) |
| ARENA | What word comes from a Latin word for "a sandy place"? (5) |
| SYLVA | Latin word for a wood that also refers to a Spanish poetic form (5) |
| BACCA | Botanical Latin word for a berry, thus used to refer to a blackcurrant, cranberry, goosegog, grape, tomato or other such simple indehiscent fruit (5) |
| ATLAS | Heaven-shouldering god traditionally figured in a book of maps, hence the tome of charts itself; or, a telamon, as a supporting column (5) |
| CREPE | Any of various crimped or wrinkled fabrics, hence the crinkled tissue paper for decorations; a thin French pancake; or, rubber for soles (5) |
| OAKUM | From "off-combings", word for the caulking fibre derived from unpicked tarred old ropes, hence the expression "money for old rope" (5) |
| PRIMO | Italian for "first", hence the top or leading part in a piano duet (5) |
| ACETABULUM | Coming from a Latin word for a vinegar cup, what is the socket of the hipbone that the head of the f |
| LIBRA | An ancient Roman unit of weight corresponding to one pound, hence the abbreviation (5) |
| ODIUM | I get in the mud with nothing on - hence the hatred (5) |
