| WELLS | Excavations to access oil or ground water; springs; or, depressions made in flour to hold eggs or milk (5) |
| WELL | A shaft or indent, be it a stone-lined hole for drawing water, an opening in the centre of a winding staircase or a depression in flour to hold milk/eggs (4) |
| MINERS | They work in excavations to extract minerals (6) |
| MOLEHILL | Mound with hole made in flour factory (8) |
| ROOMFUL | Order in flour, to cook for a lot of people (7) |
| OVA | It's too vast to hold eggs! (3) |
| CREATE | Make a large container to hold eggs primarily (6) |
| BOREHOLE | Deep excavation to find water |
| COALMINE | Excavation to extract fuel (4,4) |
| BUCKWHEAT | Plant native to Asia whose edible seeds are ground into flour to make pancakes and noodles |
| COILS | From the Latin for "collect, gather together", a word for spirals, helices or twists, such as those observed in incense, ropes, snakes, springs or wires; or, figurative entanglements, hubbubs, perplex |
| NITRATE | A compound that occurs naturally in all surface water and ground water |
| SAC | It may hold eggs, ink, or pollen |
| LACUNA | In biology, a cavity or depression, such as any of the spaces in the matrix of bone |
| SESFONTS | Natural phenomenon in Campanet, Mallorca where after heavy rainfall water springs from underground and flows spectacularly through trees and rocks (3,5,6) |
| UFANES | Natural phenomenon in Campanet, Mallorca where after heavy rainfall water springs from underground and flows spectacularly through trees and rocks (3,5,6) |
| TRAP | Word for a snare; a door set in a floor; a light carriage on springs; or, igneous rock, such as basalt, whose name, from "stair", refers to its often step-like formation (4) |
| BATHS | Balnearies, hot springs or thermae, such as Aquae Sulis's examples; tubs for balneation; or, swimming-pools (5) |
| OTA | Do, re or mi, in Italy |
| KOFTAS | Brought over fine flour to start with and sat down to make meatballs |
