| DIRECTOR | Stone or Ivory |
| ARROWHEAD | Archaeological projectile point fashioned from bone, stone or ivory |
| EBURNEAN | Word for "ivoried" or "ivory-like"; or, off-white, like a tusk (8) |
| COAST | Word after Mosquito or Ivory |
| TOWER | Water or ivory |
| SOAP | Zest or Ivory |
| DIAL | Zest or Ivory alternative |
| ITCH | Pine or ivory twin heads on taps? (4) |
| NETSUKE | Carved toggle-like wood or ivory ornament used in Japanese dress, originally to tether a purse, medicine box etc. to a sash (7) |
| AVERAGEWHITEBAN | Run-of-the-mill moratorium on cream or ivory? |
| MARQUETRY | Pattern of inlaid veneers of wood, brass or ivory used as ornamentation in furniture (9) |
| PUTT | Old word for a bumpkin or a greenhorn; a nap-like card game; a hurl or throw of a stone or a weight; or, a gentle stroke to roll a golf ball across the green, ideally into the hole (4) |
| BLOCK | A brick or other mass of stone or wood one is said to be a figurative "chip off" when resembling one's mater or pater in character or appearance (5) |
| SEED | Word for a grain, kernel, nut, pip, stone or other sown propagule or embryo of a plant, thus a beginning, origin of an idea or a source; or, one of a contest's top contenders, scattered throughout a t |
| SARCOPHAGI | Stone or marble coffins or tombs, especially ones bearing sculpture or inscriptions |
| CHISEL | Cutting tool with a sharpened edge at the end of a metal blade, used-often by driving with a mallet or hammer-in dressing, shaping, or working a solid material such as wood, stone, or metal. (6) |
| SARCOPHAGUS | A stone or marble coffin or tomb, especially one bearing sculpture or inscriptions (11) |
| CARVING | The art or deed of sculpting stone or wood; or, the piece so created (7) |
| MULLER | An artist's stone or glass tool for hand-grinding pigments on a slab; a copper cone for warming beer or wine before a fire; a ruminative thinker; or, a brand of rice pudding and yogurt (6) |
| PIT | A cherry-stone; or, a mine or other sizable hole in the ground from which stone is quarried (3) |
