| GIBRALTAR | Rock or Strait |
| BERING | Sea or strait |
| GEORGE | Clooney or Strait |
| HORST | Land between faults can be found at Hyderabad capital or strait (5) |
| SQUEAMISH | Taking part in burlesque, am I shameless or strait-laced? (9) |
| NARROWS | Constricted channels, passages or straits of water (7) |
| POCKET | A pouch in a book cover, garment, pitta, snooker table or sporran; one's personal stock of money; a gold- or quartz-lined vug or bonanza in rock; or, a kangaroo's marsupium (6) |
| REEFS | Ridges of rock or coral near the surface of the sea; or, gold- or quartzbearing veins/lodes in the earth (5) |
| SHAKES | Musical trilloes; a short word for smoothie-like drinks; informal term for earthquakes or tremors; or, cracks/fissures in rock or timber (6) |
| BEACON | A signal fire on a hill, originally to warn of danger/invasion; or, a buoy or lighthouse marking a rock or other hazard in navigable waters (6) |
| BASEMENT | A cellar-like floor or storey of a building; an ancient foundation of rock beneath sedimentary rock; or, an underlying support (8) |
| RUPES | A rock, or grotto, or cliff |
| EROSION | Also known as weathering, the natural geological process of rock or soil being worn away by water, wind or ice (7) |
| REEF | A ridge of rock or coral at or near the surface of the sea |
| CLEFT | A fissure or crevice in a rock or the ground (5) |
| STALKS | Crabs have their eyes on ___, which enables them to see around even when they are under water or a rock, or in their burrow |
| PILLAR | Architectural column; or, a tall upright rock or sea stack (6) |
| BAND | Gold wedding ring; flock of jays; group of pop, rock or jazz musicians; or, a stripe of contrasting colour (4) |
| SCREE | From "landslip" or "slide", a sloping mass of loose weathered rock or talus deposits at the base of a cliff (5) |
| CLEFTS | Fissures or splits in rock or the ground (6) |
