| DUST | Gold -; auric particles found in placer mining; something rare and valuable or difficult to obtain; or, the plant Alyssum saxatile (4) |
| GOLDDUST | Very fine precious lustrous auric particles, perhaps offered by a Magi; or, anything desperately coveted, from concert tickets to the latest Christmas Labubu/Tamagotchi (4,4) |
| BORACIC | Gold, auric edges in pen containing a metalloid (7) |
| USEA | "Give me a quiet night, a stack of books, a tuna melt on rye, a simple walk together underneath the starry sky and suddenly, the night is something rare and all because there's someone special there w |
| PEARL | Something rare and beautiful |
| ANTIQUARIAN | One who collects and trades in rare and valuable old objects (11) |
| RHODIUM | Rare and valuable metallic element with the atomic number 45 (7) |
| IONS | Very small particles found in a television set (4) |
| POTIONS | Drug particles found in medicines (7) |
| AMATIS | Rare and valuable instruments |
| COSMICDUST | Fine particles found in space (6,4) |
| FOBS | Small pockets in waistcoats or in waistbands of breeches for watches or valuables; or, chains attaching said timepieces to said garments (4) |
| PRECIOUS | Word for something valuable or treasured, such as gold, a diamond or Tolkien's "One Ring" (8) |
| PLAYHARDTOGET | Dramatic work difficult to obtain by one pretending to lack any interest (4,4,2,3) |
| GILDED | Found something shiny and valuable in the intriguing old envelope (6) |
| GRANULE | Tiny particle found in surgery on ear and lung (7) |
| ORION | Gold particle found in the sky (5) |
| ELECTRON | A stable negatively-charged subatomic particle found in all atoms (8) |
| SNAGS | Manages to get a difficult-to-obtain item |
| RAWEST | The least trained got the most difficult to obtain wicket for a run (6) |
