Related Clues:
- Eat away at metal bar in centre
- Fabulous bird raised and died breaking eggs -- waste
- Gradually eat away
- Eat away at fuel element in heart of reactor
- Staff in centre deteriorate
- Eat away, seeing bar in centre
- Cause to rust
- Become rusty, say
- Form rust, perhaps
- Gradually destroy fuel element in reactor’s heart
- Do worse than just rust
- 4 down, 1 to go — lay waste
- Oxidize, say
- Destroy putting stick through heart
- Rust, for instance (z not s)