| PEBBLES | Material by which, lost in the forest, Hansel makes a trail (7) |
| DRAWSTRING | A cord in a casing or threaded through material by which the material can be gathered up (10) |
| AUSTRALIA | Make a trail to the USA via you know where (9) |
| EROSION | The wearing away of land surface materials by water, wind, etc. (7) |
| COBBLER | One dealing with material by the foot? |
| ELUTION | Process of extracting material by washing with solvent |
| FELTTIP | Material by Rolling Stone writer |
| PLUTO | Dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt which lost its status as a planet in 2006 (5) |
| PORTUGAL | Country which lost to England in the semi final of the 1966 FIFA World Cup (8) |
| ARP | "Sculpture to Be Lost in the Forest" sculptor |
| CAMBODIA | South-east Asian country which lost up to 2 million of its people under a devastating political regime in the 1970s (8) |
| STANKONIA | OutKast album which lost the Album of the Year Grammy to the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack |
| RALEIGHBOMBER | Cruiser bicycle, introduced in 1981, which lost popularity with the introduction of mountain bikes |
| DARN | To mend a hole in knitted material by interweaving yarn with a needle (4) |
| CHASE | Who was the captain of the West Indian Test team which lost 0-3 to Australia recently? (5) |
| MOLLYMAGUIRES | With "The," 1970 drama which lost $9.9 million |
| THRUM | Cut thread ... half of which lost by hesitating? (5) |
| SALMONOFDOUBT | "The ... ... ...", collection of material by the humorist Douglas Adams that was published porthumously in 2002 (6,2,5) |
| LANDFILL | A site for the disposal of waste material by burying it (8) |
| SYNTHESISE | To form, eg a material, by combining parts to make a more complex product (10) |