Possible Clues:

• Word before and after 'to'
• Leftovers at a barbecue
• Hearth stuff
• He goes into a ship and remains
• Phoenixes rise from them
• Gray flakes
• Refuse in a tray
• ''... to ---, dust to dust''
• Word repeated in ring-around-the-rosey
• They're in the tray he got the dope to carry