| ROOTS | These absorb water and minerals from the soil. |
| THEGANGES | Strangely, these absorb gang by a river (3,6) |
| IRONORE | Rocks and minerals from which the element with atomic number 26 can be extracted (4,3) |
| XYLEM | Vascular tissue in plants primarily responsible for the distribution of water and minerals taken up by the roots (5) |
| EXPANDERS | Pellets that slowly absorb water and sink (9) |
| OPENCAST | ____ mining, the technique of extracting rock or minerals from the surface of the ground (4,4) |
| AZORES | First and last characters with minerals from the Portuguese archipelago (6) |
| MINING | The process of extracting coal, iron or other minerals from the ground (6) |
| MINERS | They work to get minerals from the earth (6) |
| ORES | Minerals from the forest (4) |
| MINED | Extracted minerals from the earth (5) |
| CHELATIONTHERAPY | A chemical process using a synthetic solution to remove heavy metals or minerals from the bloodstream (9,7) |
| ORE | Mineral from the middle of a forest (3) |
| ROOT | Part of the plant normally below the ground, attaching it to the earth and conveying nourishment to it from the soil |
| HAIR | Minuscule appendage at the base of a plant root, used to absorb moisture and nutrition from the soil (4) |
| HOMONYMS | The sentence "The rose rose up from the soil" contains them |
| BRAINWAVE | Ultimately absorb water from the sky and sea - that's a good idea! (9) |
| LEAVES | The omasum is like a filter which has numerous "___" of tissue that filters the contents and also absorbs water |
| ARID | Dry, needing help to absorb water in the end |
| LARGEINTESTINE | Organ in the body that absorbs water from undigested material (5,9) |
