| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| GRIMY | Sooty | |
| SOOTISH | Sooty. | |
| QUAKER | The sooty albatross. | |
| BLACKANDBLUE | Bruised, sooty and sad | |
| FULIGINOUS | Pertaining to soot; sooty; dark; dusky. | |
| SOOTINESS | The quality or state of being sooty; fuliginousness. | |
| MAMGABEY | Any one of several African monkeys of the genus Cercocebus, as the sooty mangabey (C. fuliginosus), which is sooty black. | |
| EGG-BIRD | A species of tern, esp. the sooty tern (Sterna fuliginosa) of the West Indies. In the Bahama Islands the name is applied to the tropic bird, Phaethon flavirostris. | |
| HAGDON | ...Puffinus; esp., P. major, the greater shearwarter, and P. Stricklandi, the black hagdon or sooty shearwater; -- called also hagdown, haglin, and... | |
| ZIRCONIUM | ...mediate between the metals and nonmetals, obtained from the mineral zircon as a dark sooty powder, or as a gray metallic crystalline substance. ... | |
| SMUT | An affection of cereal grains producing a swelling which is at length resolved into a powdery sooty mass. It is caused by parasitic fungi of th... | |