| Glass or plastic container |
BOTTLE |
| Groups of soldiers |
TROOPS |
| Hollow tubes |
PIPES |
| Hydrogen and carbon monoxide, say |
GASES |
| Inability to use language, after a stroke say |
APHASIA |
| Leased |
RENTED |
| Microscopic organisms |
BACTERIA |
| Net fabric |
MESH |
| Orbiting body in the heavens |
PLANET |
| Sanction, empower |
AUTHORISE |
| Scattering about |
STREWING |
| Science of the interaction of organisms and their environment |
ECOLOGY |
| Silent, still |
HUSHED |
| Takes a position of power illegally |
USURPS |
| Takes into one's family |
ADOPTS |
| The Riddle of the . . . . . (novel by Erskine Childers) |
SANDS |
| Vault of heaven |
SPHERE |
| Worried or involved |
CONCERNED |