| ANDALUSITE | A grey, pink or brown hard mineral (10) |
| IE | Suffix for pink or brown |
| OYSTER | A sort of grey-pink mushroom (7) |
| EMERYPAPER | Abrasive material found in very hard mineral wrapper perhaps (5,5) |
| WEIMARANER | One of a grey, thin-coated breed of gundogs (10) |
| HOODEDCROW | Rod, who has a code for modelling a grey Corvid (6,4) |
| NOISEMAKER | Trumpet at a Grey Cup game, say |
| GUINEAFOWL | A grey and white spotted African bird related to pheasants (6,4) |
| EASYTARGET | Vulnerable sort in a grey state after review (4,6) |
| ASPHALT | A black or dark-brown hard bituminous substance (7) |
| AMBER | A yellow or yellowish-brown hard translucent fossil resin (5) |
| TIGERNUT | Brown, hard bait, good carp feed (*in gutter!) (5,3) |
| EMERY | A very hard mineral, a variety of corundum (5) |
| TABBY | Watered silk taffeta, originally from Baghdad; a cat with a brindled, mackerel or streaked coat, evocative of this; a gossip; a grey-brown mottled moth; or, coquina-like concrete (5) |
| QUARTZ | Hard mineral such as amethyst or citrine, say (6) |
| FLINT | A piece of hard mineral from which sparks are struck (5) |
| SPINEL | A hard mineral |
| CORUNDUM | Very hard mineral used as an abrasive (8) |
| HOREB | Mount with medium-hard mineral at its core (5) |
| RHODOLITE | Hard mineral has broken hired tool |
