| SINK | Kitchen or scullery basin; or, a geological swallow hole or doline, common in karst terrain (4) |
| SINKS | Heat reservoirs; mine shafts; kitchen or scullery basins; or, geologic swallow holes (5) |
| THEBURREN | Karst-landscape region in northwest County Clare, in the Republic of Ireland |
| NEST | Swallow hole? |
| KARST | A type of limestone landscape underlain by a suite of dolines, drainage systems, gorges, poljes, potholes, sinkholes, streams etc (5) |
| SINKHOLES | Dolines |
| BOWL | A biased orb rolled on a crown green; a cheese for skittles; a deep dish; a drinking cup; a lob in cricket; a natural basin; or, a Scots word for a marble (4) |
| PLUG | Bung for a sink or basin; or, a seedling grown in an individual compartment of a tray (4) |
| STOP | A bung for a basin; or, a door chock (4) |
| ROOM | Space; or, an interior division of a building such as a kitchen, study, scullery, laundry, library or hall (4) |
| SHED | Word meaning "discard", as in the water of a drainage basin; or, an outhouse or hut for bikes, cattle, garden tools or potting-up plants (4) |
| KAME | Scots word for a cockerel's crest, thus a geological term for a bank, esker, mound of sand, ridge of gravel etc, irregularly shaped, like said caruncle (4) |
| CINDERELLA | A drudge of sooty hearth or scullery; or, a "rags-to-riches" girl, idea, person or thing, in a fairy tale or real life (10) |
| MESA | U.S. city named for a geological formation |
| SAAR | German basin or river |
| DENY | Refuse in private room close to scullery |
| MAID | Scullery worker forced to speak? (4) |
| KITCHEN | Based on the Latin meaning "to cook", a room sometimes with an adjoining larder, pantry or scullery; an old Scottish word for a tea urn; or, a ship's galley (7) |
| TINY | Pint-sized container close to scullery |
| BED | A geological layer or stratum of sedimentary rock; bottom of a river or sea; or, a plot for roses (3) |
