| SKINFLINT | Scrape piece of rock to make screw |
| ROYALFERN | Layer of rocks, to the left near large plant |
| GRUNGE | Rock to make egg run off (6) |
| ONTHE | (& 6-across) Queen shunned coherent rock to make plenty for a song (2,3,5) |
| DRYSTONE | A round north, destroy rocks to make such walls? (3-5) |
| XENOLITH | Piece of rock of different origin from the igneous rock in which it is embedded (8) |
| GLEDGE | Look briefly, finally climbing on to flat piece of rock |
| TONE | Colour in piece of rock devoid of sun (4) |
| FLINT | Piece of rock used to produce an igniting spark (5) |
| STONE | Piece of rock worth a number of pounds (5) |
| COCHINEAL | Colouring of black rock to either side of ridge crest |
| CRYSTAL | From the Greek for "ice, frost", an array of atoms forming a polyhedral solid, such as a diamond, moonstone, piece of rock salt or a snowflake (7) |
| THRESH | Word, from "beat seeds out of corn/grain", for a chastising flog with a whip, a fast race, a flail or writhe about, a lavish noisy party, a loud piece of rock music or a severe trounce (6) |
| PARR | Standard piece of rock salmon |
| DROLL | Funny piece of rock and roll (5) |
| DECKED | Ornamented piece of rock, indeed! (6) |
| BOULDER | Very large rounded piece of rock (7) |
| PINNACLE | Highest pointed piece of rock (8) |
| CRAG | Rugged piece of rock |
| TEMPTER | Member's replacing third piece of rock? The Devil he is! |
