“Compound with a caret-shaped molecule, as depicted by this puzzle's circled letters”

Cliff formed by a fault

Avoided a tag, say

Penultimate Greek letter

"My fault entirely"

Taste perception first identified in 1908

Physics unit named for a physicist

Feature that debuted on Page 1 of The New York Times in 1997

Confucian "way"

Prime breeding environment for mosquitoes