| DEBRIS | Fragments of rubbish or wreckage (6) |
| LAGAN | In law, goods or wreckage lying on the bed of the sea |
| LITTER | Word that collectively refers to a load of old rubbish; or, conversely, a veritable gift of life in the form of a farrow of piglets or a kindle of kittens (6) |
| REFUSE | Rubbish or renounce(6) |
| FLAKES | Chips of toasted maize; crystals of snow; crumbly bars of chocolate; eccentric people; small flat fragments of fish food or pastry etc; or, sparks (6) |
| CRUMBS | Word for the fragments of bread recalled in an old-school euphemism akin to Christ, Christmas, god, gracious, heavens, heck, holy mackerel or lord; or, morsels of information (6) |
| SHREDS | Tatters of cloth; tiny fragments of paper; or, scraps, often of evidence (6) |
| SHARDS | Fragments of metal, glass or rock (6) |
| FORAGE | Look around for first signs of fragments of rock and stone, perhaps (6) |
| MAPLES | Sample fragments of trees (6) |
| SINGLY | Chant fragments of melody one at a time (6) |
| CENSER | Fragments of screen found in ceremonial vessel (6) |
| GRAVEL | Small fragments of rock (6) |
| RUBBLE | Fragments of rock (6) |
| SHERDS | Fragments of pitcher finally found in outhouses (6) |
| EMBERS | Hot fragments of a fire (6) |
| METEOR | Fragments of remote heavenly body (6) |
| SWORDS | Small fragments of speech on weapons (6) |
| GARBAGE | Rubbish or the name of Shirley Manson's band |
| CHAFF | Paleaceous husks; rubbish or worthless material; or, badinage (5) |
