| LITHOSPHERE | Rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle (11) |
| COLEOPTERA | Insect order that is the largest group of animals on earth, consisting of the beetles and weevils (10) |
| EXOSKELETON | Rigid outer cover of some creatures |
| HILLDEFINED | "(n.) a natural raised part of the earth's surface"? |
| MANTLE | Part of the earth's interior lying between the crust and the core, believed to consist chiefly of silicate rock (6) |
| TURNOVER | Word for transference; a pasty-like triangular pie made by folding one half of the crust around a filling of apple or jam; a small shawl; profit, revenue or yield; or, loss of possession of the ball t |
| MOHO | Earth layer that forms the boundary between the crust and mantle |
| TEMPERATEZONE | Part of the Earth between the tropics and the polar regions (9,4) |
| CRUST | Outer part of the Earth or a pizza |
| MAGMA | Mother rings yearly gathering for the hot part of the crust (5) |
| EDGE | The outer part of the shelf has no top (4) |
| SEA | Ocean / continuous body of salt water covering the greater part of the earth's surface |
| OZONE | ____ layer, thin part of the Earth's atmosphere that absorbs most of the sun's ultraviolet light (5) |
| UPHEAVAL | Raising of part of the earth's crust alters a pH value |
| OZONELAYER | Thin part of the earth's atmosphere which absorbs most of the sun's ultraviolet radiation (5,5) |
| INNER | The central part of the earth: the ..... core (5) |
| CORTEX | Outer part of the brain that plays a key role in consciousness (6) |
| ENCORE | A call for more in French on the central part of the earth (6) |
| GNOME | A legendary dwarfish creature supposed to guard the inner parts of the earth and its treasures (5) |
| MARIANA | ------- Trench, the deepest part of the Earth's oceans (7) |
