| BANDICOOT | Small marsupial made popular in a game, originally for the Sony PlayStation |
| OPOSSUM | Marsupial made work with bigger than normal quantity of money (7) |
| HONOLULU | City that hosted the Sony Open in Hawaii |
| PALMTREE | Sight during the Sony Open in Hawaii |
| TRIVIAL | Sort of pursuit made popular in the board game |
| EMERGENCYWARD | Hospital's primary care department made popular in the British television series set at Oxbridge Gen |
| AEROBICS | Form of exercise made popular in the 80s by celebrities Jane Fonda and Richard Simmons |
| TURKEYTROT | Ragtime dance made popular in the 1900s (6,4) |
| YOUNGLOVE | Song written in 1956 and made popular in 1973 by Donny Osmond (5,4) |
| CHRISTMASTREE | Yuletide fir made popular in Britain by Victoria's Albert (9,4) |
| KIEV | Kind of chicken dish made popular in 18th-century Russia (4) |
| GAMUT | Word originally for the lowest note in the scale in medieval music, later meaning the complete range of something such as emotions (5) |
| PILOT | Based on the Greek for "oar, rudder", a word originally for the steersman of a ship, later an aviator, hot-air balloonist or jockey (5) |
| BUREAU | French word originally for the baize covering a writing desk, later for the escritoire itself (6) |
| LARDER | From the French for "bacon", a pantry-like room/cupboard, originally for the storage of said meat (6) |
| ARENA | Word originally for the sand strewn over a gladiatorial place of combat, later the amphitheatre itself; a ring or stadium; or, any place of action (5) |
| GOLDENBOY | A young male considered to be most successful or popular in a particular field (6,3) |
| NECTAR | Word originally for the gods' drink of eternal life in mythology that has come to mean essence collected from flowers by pollinators including bees that forms the basis of honey (6) |
| FATHOM | Word originally for the reach of the outstretched arms, now a unit of length equal to six feet used to measure depths of water (6) |
| ACES | Word originally for the sides of dice with single pips, later cards with the highest value in various games, hence excellent pilots or experts (4) |
