| SETINSTONE | Light metal and sulphur found in deposit and bones at the centre of Excalibur, presumably (3,2,5) |
| DEFINITELY | Light metal and iron in papers all dug up from place in Dublin, for sure (10) |
| ROSE | Oxygen and sulphur found in most red wine (4) |
| GALLIUM | Picked up vessel holding two light metals, and a soft one |
| COPPERBELT | Area of Central Africa noted for its metal ore deposits and intensive mining (10) |
| SEAMSTRESS | Layers of deposits and hair in sewer |
| ILIA | Bones at the top of the pelvis |
| INION | Most prominent projection of the occipital bone at the base of the skull, used as a point of measurement in craniometry (5) |
| COWCIUM | Builder of strong bones at the dairy farm? |
| SURGEONGENERAL | Doctor curtly agrees with nurse: long bones at the top (7,7) |
| SLASK | A region of central Europe rich in deposits of coal and iron ore. |
| SKELETON | Internal bodily framework consisting of some 270 bones at birth and 206 by adulthood (8) |
| FLINT | Hard cryptocrystalline variety of quartz commonly occurring as nodules in deposits of chalk and limestone (5) |
| THICKSET | Solid sulphur found in brush (8) |
| CESSPIT | Sulphur found in messy, septic, filthy pool (7) |
| OBESE | Sulphur found in old beer, mostly stout |
| HOGSHEAD | Sulphur found in pignut barrel?(8) |
| DESSERT | Sweet sulphur found in Kalahari, perhaps (7) |
| SPASM | Sulphur found in tinned meat caused convulsion (5) |
| EXISTS | Is sulphur found in leaves? (6) |
