| RETAININGWALL | Barrier holding back earth or water |
| DAMP | Wet barrier holding back water pressure (4) |
| ELEMENT | Part of fire (or air, earth or water?) (7) |
| ELEMENTAL | Concerned with fire, air, earth or water (9) |
| CHANGEOFHEART | New view that makes earth or water waver? (6,2,5) |
| GENERATED | Barrier holding a Frenchman up (key's being made) (9) |
| AGITATE | Shake a barrier holding it (7) |
| EMBANKMENT | Artificial mound of earth or stone which holds back water or supports a road (10) |
| EMBANKMENTS | Man-made ridges of earth or stone carrying roads or railways, or confining waterways (11) |
| LAGOON | An area of water separated from the sea by coral reefs or earth or sand banks (6) |
| CORE | Centre of Earth or of an apple, pear or quince; magnetic memory of a computer; or, the positively charged nucleus of an atom (4) |
| VOLCANO | Its origins in English can be traced to Italian (or Spanish but ultimately Latin). It describes, as Britannica defines it, a "vent in the crust of Earth or another planet or satellite, from which issu |
| ELF | Being from Middle-earth or Northern Earth |
| VESTA | Named after the Roman goddess of the hearth and home, the brightest asteroid visible from Earth; or, a short wooden or wax match (5) |
| POLAR | Of or near a pole of the earth or a celestial body |
| OILWELL | A deep hole or shaft into the earth or seabed for the extraction of petroleum (3,4) |
| GLOBE | Terrestrial or celestial, a spherical representation of Earth or its stars (5) |
| CLAMP | Type of vice for a workbench; device for immobilising a vehicle; or, a heap of root vegetables stored under a layer of earth or straw (5) |
| SOFTFRUIT | A small characteristically stoneless squishable food of bramble, cane, earth or vine, such as a blackberry, goosegog, grape, rasp, redcurrant or strawberry (4,5) |
| SPHERE | Earth or baseball |
