| NATURALSELECTION | Process whereby better adapted organisms tend to survive and reproduce (7,9) |
| BORS | Only one of the three Grail knights to survive and return to King Arthur's court (4) |
| GOTON | Had enough to survive and progressed (3,2) |
| MELT | The process whereby heat changes something from a soild to a liquid (4) |
| VIABLE | Able to survive and develop (6) |
| EFFECT | The process whereby the Earth heats up in response to a blanketing of atmospheric cloud, dust, carbo |
| LONGSHORE | - - - drift, the process whereby beach material is gradually shifted along a coast (9) |
| MOLT | Process whereby a millipede will shred its exoskeleton |
| SNOWBALLEFFECT | Process whereby a small insignificant thing builds on itself thus becoming larger |
| CASCADE | Process whereby information or knowledge is successively passed on (7) |
| URBANDECAY | Sociological process whereby parts of a city fall into disrepair (5,5) |
| LEARNING | ___ curve, a process whereby people improve by understanding their mistakes (8) |
| BELEFTWITHEGGONONESFACE | Survive and encourage individuals to meet and suffer embarrassment |
| ETCHER | Type of artist who creates intaglios in a process whereby designs are bitten by acid onto printing plates (6) |
| AGING | "An extraordinary process whereby you become the person you always should have been," per David Bowie |
| IMITATE | I find a partner to embrace sex and reproduce (7) |
| EAR | Ability to recognise, appreciate, and reproduce sounds (3) |
| SCRAPEBY | Survive and fight back to live with dignity at last (6,2) |
| CHRISRYAN | British author who was the only member of the ill-fated SAS mission Bravo Two Zero to both survive and escape capture during the Gulf War |
| FERN | Non-flowering plants with roots, stems and fronds and reproduce by spores rather than by seeds |
