| RAFA | "The King of Clay," informally |
| PREK | Class where a child may play with clay, informally |
| NADAL | Known as the "King of Clay", the world no. 1 in men's singles tennis (5) |
| AKA | Rafael Nadal, ___ the "King of Clay" |
| RAFAELNADAL | World Champion Spanish tennis player nicknamed the 'King Of Clay' (6,5) |
| LERWICK | From the Old Norse meaning "bay of clay", the capital of the Shetland Islands (7) |
| GUHR | Loose earthy deposit from water occurring in the cavities of rocks, consisting of a varying mixture of clay or ochre (4) |
| TAMP | Ram down (concrete) / in blasting, to pack a detonation hole full of clay, sand etc. to get the full force of an explosion |
| ADOBE | Sun-dried brick made from a form of clay of the same name (5) |
| LATE | After the doze of Clay |
| EARTHEN | From rear, the nude's made of clay (7) |
| ILEFT | '99 Jars of Clay album "If ___ the Zoo" |
| LUNACY | Madness of French article in form of clay (6) |
| EARN | Make the inside of clay (4) |
| SLIP | Type of petticoat; a pillow case; or, a potter's mixture of clay thinned with water (4) |
| LOESS | A fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind. |
| MARBLE | Lead batteries found in crumbly soil consisting of clay and lime on the ultimate hard rock (6) |
| SKEET | Form of clay-pigeon shooting employing a pair of traps |
| LATERITE | A type of clay composed chiefly of iron and aluminium hydroxides (8) |
| SHALE | Dark fine-grained sedimentary rock formed by compression of successive layers of clay, mud etc. (5) |
