| HUES | Ruby and sapphire |
| CORUNDUM | Ruby and sapphire are forms of what mineral? (8) |
| GEMS | Ruby & sapphire |
| ALAMAINIAN | WHAT RUBY, DIAMOND, EMERALD, AND CITRINE, AMETHYST AND SAPPHIRE BELONG TO |
| ORE | RUBY, DIAMOND, EMERALD, AND CITRINE, AMETHYST AND SAPPHIRE, IN RAW FORM |
| SEPTEMBER | Containing the autumn equinox and with symbols including aster, morning glory and sapphire, the ninth month, originally the seventh in the Roman year, hence its name (9) |
| BLUE | Color whose shades include cobalt and sapphire |
| SCHIST | Metamorphic rock that is often host to gemstones including emerald, garnet and sapphire (6) |
| TOPAZ | It's between quartz and sapphire on the Mohs scale of hardness |
| LUMLEY | Joanna _, star of shows including Absolutely Fabulous and Sapphire & Steel (6) |
| JOANNALUMLEY | Star of Absolutely Fabulous and Sapphire & Steel (6,6) |
| SRILANKA | Noted source of rubies and sapphires |
| JEWELS | Diamonds, rubies and sapphires |
| ALUMINA | Oxide found in rubies and sapphires |
| PRECOCIOUS | Like rubies and sapphires |
| GEMSTONES | Emeralds and sapphires, etc (9) |
| RUTHREICHL | Restaurant critic who wrote the memoir "Garlic and Sapphires" |
| CRUX | Southern Cross constellation whose Jewel Box star cluster was named by Sir John Herschel after its apparent likeness to rubies, diamonds and sapphires (4) |
| NINE | Tyrone Dobbs and Fiz Stape live with their kids Ruby and Hope at this house number on Coronation Street (4) |
| OPAL | Siliceous gem with kaleidoscopic colours said by Pliny to encompass the blue of sapphire, the green of emerald, the purple of amethyst, the red of ruby and the yellow of topaz (4) |
