| CLOUD | Any visible mass of water droplets, ice crystals, or both suspended in the air (5) |
| SMOKE | "Ghost of a fire" manifesting as a cloud of carbon particles suspended in the air; grey tinged with blue; a woodbine or other smouldering burn; or, anything that fogs or obscures (5) |
| SPRAY | A cloud of water droplets; or, a sprig of flowers, berries or foliage (5) |
| HOVER | Remain suspended in the air (5) |
| VAPOR | Cloudy diffused matter, suspended in the air |
| BORON | Metalloid element chemically similar to carbon, occurring as crystals or as a brown amorphous powder; atomic no. 5 (5) |
| HOSEA | Hebrew prophet's house by a large mass of water (5) |
| PRISM | Crystal or glass object used to create a spectrum by means of dispersion (5) |
| FACET | A small surface, e.g. of a crystal or gem (5) |
| STEAM | Mist of water droplets |
| OCEAN | Mass of water buffeting canoe (5) |
| FLOOD | Damaging mass of water (5) |
| GLAZE | Be it eggwash, drizzly thin icing, enamel, ganache, gloss, glost, lacquer or Japanese raku's lustrous ethereal finish which appears to be floating, it is a crystal- or vitric-like coating (5) |
| SWIRL | Eddying mass (of water) |
| EMCEE | Billy Crystal or Whoopi Goldberg for the Oscars, often |
| GAZER | Word after crystal or star |
| BILLY | Crystal or Joel |
| CABLECAR | A transport system that is suspended in the air and typically travels up or down a mountain (5,3) |
| FLAKES | Stone Age flint hand tools; wafer-like fragments of pastry, dried paint etc; ice crystals; or, crumbly milk chocolate sticks served in "99s" (6) |
| CIRRUS | Cloud forming wispy streaks of ice crystals or 'mare's tails' (6) |
