| GABERDINE | Material from a breeding ground |
| GABARDINE | Material from a breeding ground (9) |
| NEST | A bed of a being, bink of a bee, burrow of a badger or literal "sitting-down place" of a bird, built in the process of nidification; or, the brood occupying such a breeding ground (4) |
| ROOKERY | It's a breeding ground for a card-sharp on the eastern railway (7) |
| HERONRY | A breeding ground or colony of aigrettes/egrets, harnsers or related waders, yet also called a rookery (7) |
| INFESTED | Damaged feed tins became a breeding ground of pests |
| HOTBED | Warm bunk is a breeding-ground |
| SIBERIA | Heading on Spain's airline to a breeding ground for birds (7) |
| SARGASSO | Sea in the western Atlantic known as a breeding ground for eels (8) |
| FAIRISLE | Southernmost part of Shetland noted as a breeding ground for sea birds (4,4) |
| PETRIDISH | Course of stewed tripe that's a breeding ground for bacteria.... (5,4) |
| SLAGHEAP | A pile of waste material from a mine, etc (4,4) |
| ECLECTIC | With material from a wide range of sources (8) |
| DREDGES | Remove material from a riverbed (7) |
| ORE | Material from a mine, such as magnetite |
| LAVA | Molten material from a volcano |
| HESSIAN | Coarse material from a Nazi leader? (7) |
| ROCKSLIDE | Fall of stony material from a mountain (9) |
| SKID | Slide - Remove material from a liquid's surface (4) |
| NET | Material from a back number (3) |
