| SANDS | Seashores or deserts; or, with allusion to the grains in an hourglass, moments of time (5) |
| EVE | Biblical first woman whose name, with allusion to the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden, was given to an apple-based pudding (3) |
| SPONGE | A porifer such as a Venus's flower basket; its skeleton as a shower puff; or, with allusion to either example's absorbency, a drunkard or soak (6) |
| OAT | One of the grains in Nutri-Grain |
| CRAB | Crustacean found on seashores or in rockpools (4) |
| STRANDS | Beaches or deserts (7) |
| SAND | Mineral substance made of small grains of rock, quartz etc. chiefly found in deserts or beaches |
| BIAS | Line diagonal to the grain of a fabric |
| NOD | With allusion to a Genesiac land, a short sleep or nap; or, a gesture that is as "good as a wink to a blind horse", according to a proverb (3) |
| APRIL | Thought to be from "to open", in allusion to the opening of buds and blossoms in spring, name of the fourth month and one whose "showers may bring flowers", according to folklore (5) |
| FLAIR | Word, from "smell sweet" or "sense of smell", in allusion to the notion of one's ability to detect scent and react accordingly, for instinctive aptitude (5) |
| RUCHE | A flounce, frill or ruffle whose name derives from "tree bark" or from "beehive", latterly in allusion to the plaits of straw used to make a skep (5) |
| SHELL | Collected from seashores in a popular hobby and studied in conchology, the carapace of a cockle, periwinkle, whelk or other mollusc (5) |
| SWASH | Dashing motion or sound of waves over a seashore; or, a typographical flourish on a letter (5) |
| AMBER | Color of waves of grain in an American song |
| WHEAT | One of the grains used for whisky production (5) |
| CRABS | Crustaceans, often found on seashores, whose species include the broad-clawed porcelain (5) |
| CHAKRA | Word, from Sanskrit for "circle, wheel", in allusion to the wheel of time or dharma, for any one of the vortexes of spiritual energy in the body, each assigned a unique colour (6) |
| GRAIN | Particle in an hourglass |
| DITCH | Make a forced landing in the sea or desert? (5) |
