granule / hoarse / raspy / sand / powder / CL:粒[li4] / abbr. for Tsar or Tsarist Russia
沙
=
少
+
氵
:
Sherlock Holmes (sh) is selling bottles (氵) in front of the ashram (a1). Smiley (少) comes round because thon is very thirsty and buys a bottle, just to find out that it contains only sand (沙).
Maxwell holds a special lecture in front of the Eiffel Tower, and his students are Bessie Coleman, Willie Walrus and a cute poodle. Maxwell spends a lot of time explaining the inverse power law of electrostatic forces.
玛
=
王
+
马
:
Martin Luther King (王) and Mahatma Gandhi (m) are feeding the unicorn (马) muffins (玛) in the ashram (a3), but the unicorn is frequently biting on agates (玛) and cornelians (玛) which are hidden in the muffins (玛).