| UTE | "Land of the sun" |
| RISING | Japan is known as The Land Of The ... Sun |
| SEKHMET | In Egyptian religion, she was a goddess of war and the destroyer of the enemies of the sun god Re. She was associated both with disease and with healing and medicine. She was the companion of the god |
| BOUCHER | French artist in the Rococo style whose paintings include Charms of Country Life, A Summer Pastoral, The Rising of the Sun, The Billet-Doux, The Dovecote and several portraits of Madame de Pompadour ( |
| LIMBS | Apparent edges of the discs of the Sun or the Moon; graduated arcs of sextants and quadrants; or, the halves forming archery bows (5) |
| ARC | From the Latin meaning "bow", word for part of the circumference of a circle that originally meant the path of the Sun from horizon to horizon (3) |
| ECLIPTIC | The large circle representing the apparent path of the Sun among the constellations in the course of a year |
| FRUIT | General word for one of the types of food grown by French gardener La Quintinie at Le Potager du Roi for the table of the Sun King, Louis XIV (5) |
| ORLEANS | Duc d' -; title upon the death of his uncle Gaston of Philippe I who was the younger brother of the Sun King and bought Chateau de Saint- Cloud for 240,000 livres in 1658(7) |
| TIDE | Cyclical ebb and flow of the sea caused by the gravitational pull of the Sun and the Moon (4) |
| ECLIPSE | An obscuration of the light of the Sun or Moon by the intervention of another body (7) |
| EVECTION | Periodical variation in the motion of the moon caused by the attraction of the sun (8) |
| TRANSIT | In astronomy, the passage of a planet across the face of the sun (7) |
| SPAR | Iceland -; type of crystal used by the Vikings to find the direction of the sun as an aid for navigation (4) |
| SOLARSYSTEM | The portion of our galaxy which is subject to the gravity of the sun (5,6) |
| LIMB | The edge of the disc of the Sun or Moon as viewed from Earth (4) |
| RADIUS | A solar ___ is a unit of measurement equivalent to the distance between the centre of the Sun and its visible surface |
| TANTARA | Effect of the sun on third of the taramasalata. Blast! (7) |
| GORKY | Maxim ?, author of stage plays The Lower Depths and Children of the Sun (5) |
| SUNSET | The daily disappearance of the sun below the horizon(6) |
