| BR | A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens. |
| SOYSAUCE | Thus unknown origin said to be for salty dark brown liquid (3,5) |
| SOY | _ sauce, dark brown liquid condiment used in Chinese and Japanese cookery (3) |
| NIOBIC | Containing a ductile white metal in the pentavalent state (6) |
| NITRIC | Containing pentavalent nitrogen (Chem.) |
| IODIN | A nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens. |
| SILICON | Sounds like a stupid trick with a nonmetallic element used in micro-chips. (7) |
| OSMIUM | Densest naturally occurring element, belonging to the platinum metals group; atomic no. 76 (6) |
| CERIUM | Metallic element belonging to the lanthanide group whose symbol is Ce (6) |
| BANJO | African in origin, this instrument was popularized in the United States by enslaved people in the 19th century. It has a tambourine-like body with a hoop and a screw that secure the vellum belly to th |
| MAPLESYRUP | A sweet, sticky, brown liquid that can be eaten with pancakes or used to make desserts (5,5) |
| BROMINE | Dark red-brown liquid chemical element with the atomic number 35 (7) |
| SILICO | Containing a nonmetallic element: Comb. form |
| CARBON | A nonmetallic element (6) |
| IODINE | Element belonging to the halogen group (6) |
| OCEAN | Amount of calamine lotion you'll need 'when poison ivy comes a-creeping all around' (according to th |
| HEERLEN | Industrial city in Limburg, Netherlands; a major coal-mining centre from the late 19th century to th |
| RAINBOW | Sort of trout I tucked into a brown liquid (7) |
| ATLAS | Series of mountain ranges in northwestern Africa, running generally southwest to northeast more than 1,200 miles (2,000 km) through the Maghreb, from the Moroccan port of Agadir in the southwest to th |
| ACCRA | In the first minutes of 6th March, 1957, Prime Minister Nkrumah declared Ghana's independence to th |
