| PASTEL | Artist's coloured stick of chalk |
| CRAYONISTS | Term for artists or scratchboarders who colour in, draw or illustrate with contes, pastels or other pencils or sticks of chalk, pipeclay or wax (10) |
| CRAYON | Kind of fish on a coloured stick (6) |
| RAYON | Fabric that makes a coloured stick when it follows the letter "c" |
| CHARCOAL | Check curve round a lake, using coloured sticks |
| NEEDLES | The ____ , row of three stacks of chalk off the western end of the Isle of Wight (7) |
| THENEEDLES | Group of chalk stacks in the sea off the western tip of the Isle of Wight (3,7) |
| GYPSUM | Type of chalk stick agent brought back inside (6) |
| SEVENFOLD | Disposed of round flat note like sisters of chalk cliffs (9) |
| AUBREYHOLES | A set of chalk pits that ring the inner bank of Stonehenge (6,5) |
| CHEESE | Food, such as Comte or Vacherin Mont d'Or, made in fruitieres from the milk of French Simmental cows; or, the idiomatic opposite of "chalk" (6) |
| FLINT | Hard cryptocrystalline variety of quartz commonly occurring as nodules in deposits of chalk and limestone (5) |
| PENCIL | Word for an artist's paintbrush first, later a drawing/writing implement of chalk, graphite or wax; or, a set of straight lines, meeting in a point (6) |
| CHAKALAKA | * Head of archaeology looking into analysis of chalk starts to admit key assumptions |
| ERASE | Rid of chalk |
| BACON | Artist working again after losing end of chalk |
| CRETACEOUS | Roughly redesigned crease out of chalk |
| ADONIS | blue; butterfly of chalk downland (6) |
| SISTERS | Seven -; series of chalk cliffs in Sussex (7) |
| CHILTERNS | Range of chalk hills which includes the Dunstable Downs |
