| JEDIKNIGHT | In the Star Wars universe, what a Padawan becomes after completing "the trials" |
| JEDITRAINING | Regimen for a Padawan |
| DRIVERSEDUCATION | After completing the courses, the golfer had a well-rounded ___ |
| PASS | Step 3: Collect your boarding ___ after completing the check-in formalities! |
| PASSOUT | Faint after completing the course (4,3) |
| HONESTWOMAN | What a girl becomes after marriage, in an old expression |
| JEDI | Master knight or padawan in the Star Wars movies |
| RICH | Henry VIII's minister who played a key role in the trials of Sir Thomas More and John Fisher as well as the downfall of Sir Thomas Cromwell and the dissolution of the monasteries (4) |
| ALECROSE | English sailor who was knighted in 1968 after completing a single-handed circumnavigation of the globe |
| UMBERTONOBILE | Who, with the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth of the US, flew over the North Pole in 1926, completing the flight from Europe to North America? (7,6) |
| WHITE | A ___ dwarf is what the Sun will become after it exhausts all its nuclear fuel |
| ESSAY | Short article, and a hint to completing the titles in the theme answers |
| ADOZENROSES | What you can find in the grid after completing this puzzle, looking up, down, left, right and diagon |
| WAUGH | Novelist who wrote in his satire Decline and Fall of the trials of scholar Paul Pennyfeather, wrongly sent down from Oxford after falling victim to the antics of the Bollinger Club (5) |
| POSTGRADUATE | Person on a course of study after completing a first degree (12) |
| POSTGRADUATES | Those undertaking a course of study after completing a first degree (13) |
| ENDOR | In the Star Wars universe, the home of the Ewok (5) |
| EWOK | What is the small teddy bear-like creature in the Star Wars universe? (4) |
| LAVA | What magma becomes after a volcanic eruption |
| WHATGOESUP | Start of a popular saying about gravity ... or a hint to completing the answers to the starred clues |