| LOAM | Rich soil; a mixture of sand, clay and organic material (4) |
| ADOBE | Building material made with earth, water and organic material such as straw |
| MULCHES | Beasts of burden carrying chain and organic materials (7) |
| RILL | Word essentially for a tiny stream or streamlet, but also a brooklet, a gulley eroded into soil, a runnel, a small trench or a furrow on the Moon (4) |
| FRIT | Mixture of sand and fluxes for glass making (4) |
| RAKE | From the Old English for "heap up", a gardening tool for gathering autumn leaves or for smoothing soil; a person of thin stature, comparable to said implement; or, a debauchee or roue, such as Hogarth |
| MARL | A kind of clayey soil; a poetic word for the ground; or, mottled yarn/wool (4) |
| MOLE | Heap of soil (a 6 mountain?) (4) |
| GRIT | Mixture of sand, stone etc (4) |
| SOIL | Sand, clay, or loam |
| WETS | Soils a diaper |
| CONCRETE | Building material, a mixture of sand, gravel and cement (8) |
| PEAT | Rich soil-like deposit used for fuel or gardening (4) |
| LOAMY | A mixture of sand and clay |
| RENDER | Perform with a mixture of sand and cement builders use |
| UREA | Nitrogen-rich soil additive |
| MASONBEE | Insect that builds a hard domelike nest of sand, clay, etc, held together with saliva (5,3) |
| GLEBE | From "clod, earth, soil", a word for a portion of land attached to a vicar's benefice; or, poetically, a field (5) |
| FIBER | Coconut matting and organic basket liners are this - and the subjects of this week's Miscellany have plenty of it to aid digestion! (5) |
| SEDIMENTARY | Of rock, formed by the accumulation and compression of mineral and organic particles on the earth's surface (11) |
