| BASALTIC | Of a type of rock since found in the sea (8) |
| AXE | Word for a hatchet-like weapon or tool since Anglo-Saxon times, but for a saxophone in jazz or an electric guitar in rock since the 1950s (3) |
| ABASED | Put down since found in a plot |
| PLASMA | Green stone since found in Poland and Morocco |
| ELTON | First name in rock since 1970 |
| AGARAGAR | Looking back, couple of Indian notes forming a pattern found in the sea (4-4) |
| SWEETPEA | Small Native American accommodation found in the sea for one of the climbers (5,3) |
| MARINATE | Pickle one time found in the sea (8) |
| STALAGMITE | A type of rock formation that rises from the floor of a cave (10) |
| XENOLITH | A different type of rock found in rock (8) |
| RIACE | Comune in Calabria notable as the place where bronze statues of warriors, now in the Museo Nazionale della Magna Grecia in Reggio Calabria, were found in the sea in 1972 |
| IGNEOUS | From the Latin meaning "fiery", a type of rock such as rainbow obsidian or "heaven eye", formed from the solidification of magma (7) |
| WOBBLE | Band leader in Elbow flips over a type of rock (6) |
| HEAVYMETAL | Lead, for example, in a type of rock |
| INDIE | Shortened name for a type of rock music produced by small record labels (5) |
| GRANITE | A type of rock from Tangier (7) |
| LIMESTONE | Strangely silent emo is a type of rock (9) |
| METAMORPHIC | A type of rock that has been transformed by heat, pressure or other natural forces (11) |
| LEAPFROG | Jump over field with force splitting type of rock (8) |
| ASHSTONE | Type of rock formed from fine volcanic ash (8) |
