| AZOTH | The name given in alchemy for the metal mercury (5) |
| QUICKSILVER | Alternative name for the metal mercury, as in the cultivar of Hebe pimleoides (11) |
| FLOUR | From a homophonic word for a bloom, in the sense "the best part", the name given to "the finest quality of ground wheat", aka milled grain, for making bread, cakes or pastry (5) |
| MUMMY | '___ Juanita' is the name given to the well-preserved remains of a sacrificed Incan girl discovered in the Peruvian Andes in 1995 (5) |
| KARAT | Unit in alchemy |
| ALPHA | The first Greek letter that, with the second letter "beta", forms the origin of the name given to a system of letters we use to write (5) |
| SUSAN | The name given to the Queen's first corgi (5) |
| ENOLA | __ Gay, the name given to the plane from which Hiroshima was bombed (5) |
| SATAN | From the Hebrew meaning "the enemy", what is one of the names given to the archangel that Michael fo |
| REICH | The name given to a series of German regimes (5) |
| TONAL | Shades of light and dark seen in skeleton alchemy (5) |
| STONE | Philosopher's -; mythical elixir thought to transform base metals into gold whose discovery was the paramount object of alchemy (5) |
| SOROS | "The Alchemy of Finance" author George |
| SOL | From the Latin meaning "sun", a Roman god and personification of the aforesaid star; gold in alchemy; or, the tincture "or" in heraldry (3) |
| ROVER | Alchemy has called off its deal to buy this from BMW |
| MAINE | Who wrote Alchemy and Rose (2021) |
| MAGIC | Alchemy |
| CHARM | Alchemy |
| ACHAIA | Before the Roman conquest in 146 BCE, what was the name given to a strip of land between the Gulf of Corinth in the north and Elis and Arcadia in the south? (6) |
| AIR | One of the four elements, in alchemy |
