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).
漠
=
氵
+
莫
:
The desert (漠) is advancing into observatory's bathroom (o4), but Mozart (莫) and Mahatma Gandhi (m) are very unconcerned (漠) because they stockpiled a lot of water bottles (氵).