| METALLURGIST | Studier of certain elements or alloys |
| BIMETAL | Formed of two different metals or alloys. |
| PERMUTATION | Changing the arrangement of certain elements (11) |
| NOBLE | Of certain elements, chemically unreactive (5) |
| ASSAY | Examine (ore or alloy?) (5) |
| MOLERAT | African rodent in metal (or alloy) (4,3) |
| COMPOUND | Mixture or alloy (8) |
| GROUP | A band of musicians/singers, a circle of friends, a class of peers, a cluster of galaxies, a family of chemical elements or a gathering of people (5) |
| PANEL | Section of a wainscotted wall; a jury; or, one of the three elements or pieces forming a triptych (5) |
| RHYTHM | Related to the Greek meaning "to flow", a vowelless word for a pattern of recurrence, such as musical beat or a regular harmonious sequence of colours, elements or shapes in art (6) |
| ANALYSES | Detailed examinations of the elements or structure of something (8) |
| RAREEARTHMETALS | Certain elements of rehearsal matter especially |
| WATER | One of four zodiacal elements; or, a wavy sheen on satin or silk (5) |
| INERTGASES | One of the terms for the monatomic "noble" elements or argonons of the helium group (5,5) |
| POLYADIC | Involving three or more quantities, elements or individuals (8) |
| DYADS | Things that consist of two elements or parts |
| PLUMBBOBS | From the Latin for "lead", weights of said element or other metal placed at the ends of lines for determining verticality or the depths of water (5,4) |
| STORMYDEBATE | In which speakers battle against certain elements? (6,6) |
| HALOGENS | Keeping a journal, layers certain elements (8) |
| ACTINIDES | Certain elements function inside out |
