| ESCE | Suffix for "coal" or "opal" |
| SCUTTLE | Fireside pail for coal; or, dialect for a wicker basket for vegetables (7) |
| MINE | Where to dig for coal or gold |
| BIN | Holder for coal or garbage |
| MINED | Dug for coal or other 12 minerals (5) |
| INE | Ending for salt or opal |
| GEM | Pearl or opal, for example |
| GEMSTONE | Typically formed within Earth's crust and cut and polished by a lapidarist, a general word for a mineral crystal such as sapphire, diamond, topaz or opal (8) |
| JEWEL | Topaz or opal |
| SILICA | Quartz or opal |
| JEWELS | Topaz or opal, say |
| POTS | A bucket for milk or water; a similar vessel for coal, ice or paint; or, the quantity that fills said piggin (4) |
| FUEL | Based on Latin for "fireplace, hearth", word for coal, gas, oil, petrol, wood etc, burned to produce heat or power; food, as a source of energy; or, any stimulus that inflames emotion (4) |
| DUFF | A word for coal dust; decaying leaves; dough; flour pudding boiled in a bag; something broken, faulty or useless; or, the buttocks or rump (4) |
| SCUTTLES | Word for the swift scurries of mice, moles, rats or voles; hatchways; trapdoors; or, from "dishes, platters, trays", fireside buckets for coal (8) |
| MINERS | Workers who dig for coal, for example |
| PAIL | Bucket for coal, ice or milk (4) |
| PITTSTON | Pennsylvania city once famous for coal mining |
| BINS | Receptacles for coal |
| SACK | Container for coal etc (4) |
