| EMERALDS | Gemstones that owe their distinctive colour to chromium or vanadium (8) |
| TREASON | Violation or betrayal of the allegiance that a person owes their sovereign or country (7) |
| ORE | Chromite, to chromium |
| DUN | Being mouse-coloured, will go after those that owe money (3) |
| DEBTORS | People that owe money (7) |
| DETESTED | "____ sport, that owes its pleasures to another's pain" (William Cowper) |
| PROVISOS | Conditions for treating porosis with vanadium (8) |
| FEVERFEW | Plant made of iron, vanadium, and tungsten, with free constituents thrown in (8) |
| TIGEREYE | A golden-brown gemstone that symbolises strength and courage (8) |
| SAPPHIRE | Gemstone that is blue and transparent (8) |
| ADVANCED | More complex area flickered with introduction of vanadium |
| CRYSTALS | Chromium and yttrium salts formed regular structures (8) |
| ELEMENTS | Iron, carbon, and chromium, for example, workers put in sort of steel (8) |
| CREDIBLE | Chromium can be eaten? Quite likely (8) |
| VIRIDIAN | Bluish-green pigment consisting of hydrated chromium oxide (8) |
| STELLITE | A range of cobalt-chromium alloys (8) |
| FLAG | A piece of bunting with distinctive colours and a design such as a border, canton, saltire, skull and crossbones or stripes; or, a yellow iris thought to have inspired the fleur-de-lis (4) |
| FANCY | Petit-four-like fondant cake; or, a diamond with a distinctive colour (5) |
| BLUE | Distinctive colour of the Himalayan or Tibetan poppy flower (4) |
| AMETHYSTS | Gemstones that prevent drunkenness, according to Greek legend |
