| FALLOUT | Solid particles that descend from the atmosphere on to the Earth following a nuclear explosion (7) |
| WATER | The liquid that descends from the clouds as rain (5) |
| DESCENDER | Printing: part of a letter, such as g,j, p and p that descend below level of n or x (9) |
| MEETS | Encounters aliens on Earth following Martian leader (5) |
| DREGS | Solid particles that tend to settle at the bottom of some liquids, such as coffee. (5) |
| NAIROBI | No hiding atmosphere on British island with the green city in the sun (7) |
| AEROSOL | Name for tiny liquid or solid particles uniformly distributed in a finely divided state through a gas, usually air. Dust is an example of this. (7) |
| TWISTER | 1996 action film in which destroyers descend from the sky |
| CASCADE | Type of waterfall that descends over a series of rocky steps (7) |
| CENTAUR | Half man, half-horse creature of Greek mythology said to descend from Ixion and the cloud nymph Nephele (7) |
| AIRLESS | Tune without atmosphere on moon (7) |
| AIRCREW | Atmosphere on team is generally flying (7) |
| REFUGEE | Fugitive freezes, regularly skirting smoky atmosphere on end of ridge (7) |
| DETRAIN | Descend from a rail car (7) |
| ALIGHTS | Descends from a vehicle / dismounts from a horse |
| GETDOWN | Fledglings do it to descend from mount (3,4) |
| ATOMIST | Pre-Socratic believer in indivisible particles that constitute all matter |
| DETAINS | Descends from carriage missing right stops (7) |
| LAPLATA | An almost lofty friend descends from South American city (2,5) |
| EDOM | Ancient middle-eastern kingdom south of the Dead Sea said to descend from the Old Testament patriarch Esau (4) |
