| PLACER | Waterborne or glacial deposit of gravel or sand containing heavy ore minerals as gold, platinum, which have been eroded from their original bedrock |
| TRANSITION | Area for changing from one discipline to another in triathlon; or, word denoting a d-block metal such as gold, platinum or silver (10) |
| CALICHE | A mineral deposit of gravel, sand and nitrates, found in the Atacama desert (7) |
| MORAINE | Glacial deposit of boulders |
| SHROVETUESDAY | A time when heavy ore dusts are present followed by a day of ash (6,7) |
| YORE | Heavy ore is something from the past (4) |
| BALLAST | Heavy material such as gravel or sand, placed in the bilge of a ship to give it stability (7) |
| DREDGING | Mechanized method for extracting gold from gravel or sand |
| TCM | Network that fills in the blanks of the 1954 film "Whi_e _hrist_as" |
| ANAPHORA | A rewrite of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" using ___: "A lamb quite little, Mary had / A lamb, fleece whi |
| FREEMIUM | A business model, especially on the Internet, whereby basic services are provided free of charge whi |
| ELEMENTS | Silver, gold, platinum, etc. |
| CHESSSET | Made in 2005, the Jewel Royale, with playing pieces made from gold, platinum and precious stones, is the world's most expensive what? (5,3) |
| PYRAMIDS | "See the ... along the Nile; Watch the sunrise on a tropic isle; Just remember, darling, all the whi |
| DRIFT | A mass of snow or leaves, piled up by the wind; a large spread of daffodils, snowdrops or other flowering plants; a flock of cattle or birds; a heavy shower of rain/sleet; or, loose fluvioglacial or g |
| TILL | A money drawer or cash register behind the counter of a restaurant or shop; or, glacial deposit such as boulder clay (4) |
| ESKER | Seek solution with river or glacial deposit (5) |
| SCRUNCH | Onomatopoeic word for the sound of something underfoot such as dried leaves, gravel or snow; or, to crush or crumple (7) |
| ISOTONIC | (Of a drink) having the same concentrations of salts and minerals as in the body |
| PEBBLE | A stone from a beach, hillside, lake, mountain or river, smoothed by the action of water or glacial ice (6) |
