| ALLUVIUM | Fine particles of silt. clay. mud and sand that are carried and deposited by rivers (8) |
| SAILINGORDERS | Instructions that are carried out in the main (7,6) |
| ALLUVIAL | _ fan, an accumulation of silt, sand, gravel and boulders deposited by fast-flowing mountain rivers when they reach flatter land (8) |
| HATSTAND | Roughly sand that item of furniture (8) |
| COALDUST | Black lung disease was caused by colliery workers inhaling these fine particles of their fossil fuel |
| SWALLOWS | Once believed to hibernate, agile migratory birds that build nests from mud and straw in barns and eaves (8) |
| ATOMISED | Reduced to fine particles of spray (8) |
| MOONDUST | Fine particles of lunar soil (8) |
| PORTABLE | Easily carried and fit for drinking across river |
| GOLDDUST | *Fine particles of the metal Au |
| FLAMINGO | This pink long-necked bird feeds by forcing mud and water through bristly plates at each side of its beak with its tongue. |
| GUMBOOTS | Stick to footwear suited to the mud and wet (8) |
| SILT | Soil matter, fine sand and similar, carried by moving water and deposited as a sediment (4) |
| SMOKE | Product of combustion consisting of fine particles of carbon carried by hot gases and air (5) |
| SHALE | Dark fine-grained sedimentary rock formed by compression of successive layers of clay, mud etc. (5) |
| SOOT | Black substance rising in fine flakes in the smoke of wood, coal and deposited on the sides of the chimney |
| MARSUPIAL | A mammal of an order whose members are born incompletely developed and are typically carried and suckled in a pouch on the mother's belly |
| QUICKSAND | Loose wet sand that sucks in anything that rests or falls into it (9) |
| DUNES | Mounds of sand that may occur in the desert or along the coast (5) |
| ISLANDS | Sand and a lot of silt make up floating masses (7) |
