| GILT | Coating of aurum |
| GOLDPLATE | Dishes, tableware, utensils, vessels etc made of aurum, collectively; or, a metal, such as silver, gilded by means of electrolysis (4,5) |
| GOLDDUST | Particles of "aurum" extracted from alluvial deposits by placer miners; or, by extension, something rare, precious or sought after (4,4) |
| EGOLI | Zulu name for South Africa's "place of aurum", Johannesburg (5) |
| GOLD | With the Latin name aurum, a metal gilded onto some styles of Satsuma or Imari ware for decorative accents; or, the centre of an archery target (4) |
| GOLDSMITH | Author of The Vicar of Wakefield and The Deserted Village ; or, a worker in the precious metal known in Latin as aurum (9) |
| AES | Honor tertius, non aurum, non argentum, ... |
| ENO | Brian with the album "Aurum" |
| URANIUM | Element aurum in tangle is radioactive. (7) |
| LATIN | Like "aurum" for gold and "ferrum" for iron |
| INUTILITATEM | Uselessness, eg aurum ... iacebat propter ____ hebeti mucrone retusum DRN 5.1274-5 |
| PYRITE | A shiny brass-yellow mineral superficially resembling "aurum", hence its nickname "fool's gold" (6) |
| AERARIUM | Aedis Saturni ea pars in qua aurum publicum servabatur |
| MANTLE | Word for a cloak or shawl, hence a blanket, coating of snow, layer of the Earth, pallium of a mollusc, tapestry, wing covert of a bird or other covering/concealing thing (6) |
| ENCALADUS | With a coating of ice, one of the brightest, most-reflective bodies in our solar system, one of Saturn's moons (9) |
| FILM | This is the object of screening a light coating of dust (4) |
| ENAMEL | The white, hard glossy coating of the crown of the tooth |
| ABALONE | The iridescent coating of its shell is known as mother-of-pearl |
| ROSEY | Description of an item with a reddish coating of iron oxide (5) |
| PATINA | Fine coating of oxide on the surface of a metal (6) |
