| YLEM | The original matter from which the basic elements are said to have been formed in the big bang theory |
| LEONARD | Penny's husband in The Big Bang Theor y (7) |
| URANIUM | Element discovered by Martin Klaproth in pitchblende in 1789 but believed to have been formed in sup |
| RECESS | Scree's been formed in a sort of bay (6) |
| TEKTITE | Small dark glassy object thought to have been formed from terrestrial rocks by the heat of impacting meteorites (7) |
| BAREBONES | Comprising only the basic elements |
| PANCAKE | Peak can be formed in making crepe (7) |
| SCRABBLE | Game in which the answers to the starred clues are legal plays but cannot be formed even if you have both blanks |
| TAUTONYM | Taxonomic name in which the genus and species elements are the same, as in Rattus rattus, Bison bison etc. (8) |
| STAYBEHIND | Deny habits have been formed that won't go |
| LIFO | Acronym for method of data computing in which the most recently added elements are processed first (4) |
| STEM | The root or main part of a word to which formative elements are added (4) |
| BRUCEWILLIS | The Sixth Sense, Looper, 12 Monkeys, Unbreakable, Death Wish and The Fifth Element are films in which this US actor starred (5,6) |
| TETRISPIECES | Set of which all seven elements are fittingly hidden in the grid |
| WEATHERGLASS | In which the elements are reflected? (7,5) |
| ATOM | Big bang's original matter |
| TAEK | Big bang's original matter |
| MODULARITY | Moral duty I abandoned for the use of more basic elements |
| STITCH | Basic element of sewing/knitting; the least scrap of clothing; or, a ridge between two ploughed furrows (6) |
| STAPLE | Wool fibre; its length or quality; or, from "market", a word for a principal commodity or a basic element/food (6) |
