| RETTING | A medieval ... pond (or tanning pit) was discovered in Corpusty during an excavation by the Norfolk Archaeological Unit in 2001 (7) |
| QUARREL | Argument about most of the excavation by the Spanish |
| RAREFIND | Thrill during an excavation |
| EXAMINED | Studied how pit was in for being axed somehow (8) |
| SUMAC | Dye, spice or tanning agent from Rhus plants |
| SALON | Word after "nail" or "tanning" |
| TYPICAL | Clay pit was characteristic of its kind (7) |
| QUAY | Vicar leaves excavation by wharf (4) |
| TURGID | Put back excavation by ditch that's swollen (6) |
| WELL | An excavation giving access to oil or water; a natural mineral spring; a nautical cockpit; a lift-shaft; or, an inkpot housed in a hole in a desk (4) |
| MINE | An excavation for the extraction of coal, gems and ores; the "gallery" of an insect in a leaf; or, historically, a passage under a besieged fortress to give secret ingress or to blow it up (4) |
| MINERAL | From a word for an excavation of earth, a term for an ore, such as coal, gold or silver, obtained by digging; a substance neither animal nor vegetable; water found in nature; or, any element essential |
| LEDA | Moon that was discovered in 1974 and named for a woman in Greek myth who was believed to have been the mother (by Zeus, who had seduced her in the form of a swan) of Pollux and of Helen (4) |
| IRIDIUM | The element was discovered in 1803 in the acid-insoluble residues of platinum ores by the English chemist Smithson Tennant. The international prototype standard kilogram of mass is made from an alloy |
| WATERHOLE | A depression, such as a pond or pool, especially one used by animals as a drinking place (5,4) |
| STEW | Hot bath or steam room; a medieval fish pond; or, a casserole (4) |
| HYPERION | This moon is notable in that it has no regular rotation period but tumbles in an apparently random fashion in its orbit. It was discovered in 1848 by the American astronomers William Bond and George B |
| FLYINGFOX | Large fruit bat - a new species was discovered in September 2007 in a protected wildlife area in the |
| MIMAS | The smallest and innermost of the major regular moons of Saturn. It was discovered in 1789 by the English astronomer William Herschel. Its most noteworthy feature is a 130-km- (80-mile-) diameter crat |
| TETHYS | This moon was discovered in 1684 by the Italian-born French astronomer Gian Domenico Cassini and named for a Titan in Greek mythology. Its most impressive feature is Ithaca Chasma, a giant crack sever |
