| WHEAL | Cornish name for a mine (5) |
| ELVAN | Cornish name for quartz-porphyry (5) |
| MINER | "In a cavern in a canyon; Excavating for a mine; Lived a ..., forty-niner; And his daughter, Clement |
| CANYON | Where the cavern was in which dwelt, excavating for a mine, the miner, forty-niner, and his daughter |
| ADIT | For a mine entrance just tack it on, we hear (4) |
| MOUSE | Long-tailed rodent known collectively as a mischief; old word for a match for firing a cannon or blasting a mine; or, a weight used when replacing a sash cord (5) |
| SHAFT | An arrow or spear; a sunbeam, lightning bolt or other column of light; the rachis or rib of a feather; one of a pair of thills of a carriage or cart; or, a well-like passage into a mine (5) |
| DRIFT | Passage in a mine; a drove road; the meaning or gist of words used; or, a set of fishing nets (5) |
| PILOT | For an airman, look in a mine! (5) |
| SPRAG | A prop used to support a mine roof (5) |
| ITION | A large supporting pillar of coal in a mine (5) |
| STALL | A working place in a mine (5) |
| MENAI | A mine rediscovered in a Welsh strait (5) |
| ADITS | Almost horizontal passages leading into a mine, used as an entrance, airshaft or for drainage (5) |
| STOPE | Step made in a mine to extract ore (5) |
| UNCUT | Like a diamond from a mine |
| MINED | Dug up a mine at end of the road (5) |
| HEWER | Miner who loosens rock and minerals in a mine (5) |
| ROADS | Passages in a mine (5) |
| MINOR | Person working on a mine (5) |
