| GRAVITAS | ... and show the seriousness of first great star, via other means (8) |
| MITIGATE | Lessen the seriousness of (8) |
| CULLINAN | The Great Star of Africa was cut from which diamond, the world's largest? (8) |
| CARRIAGE | A coach, pram, taxi, trap or other means of conveyance; or, the manner in which one deports oneself (8) |
| FASTENER | A button, catch, cufflink, frog, hook-and-eye, paper clip, staple, toggle or other means of fixing (8) |
| SUMERIAN | Relating to one of the first great civilisations, in the area that later became Babylonia (8) |
| ASTEROID | So I rated as no great star (8) |
| MASACCIO | First great painter of the Italian Renaissance, born Tommaso Giovanni di Simone Guidi in 1401 (8) |
| ENORMITY | Extreme scale or seriousness of something perceived as bad (8) |
| REDGIANT | Great star performing in tragedy no end (3,5) |
| ALLFOURS | Miranda July book heralded by the Times as "the first great perimenopause novel" |
| ORDEALOF | First great novel of George Meredith, published in 1859 (3,6,2,7,7) |
| DEPTH | The seriousness of French head of police and Tory leader on heroine (5) |
| CANNIBAL | Carthage's first great general losing horse to ogre |
| FACECARD | Maybe Jack Frost's first great book (4,4) |
| GRAVY | Excess profit and the seriousness of losing it (5) |
| KIMBER | The first Great British Rearrange the letters in the shaded squares to spell out the name of the celebrity in the centre of the grid Bake-Off winner, Edd _ (6) |
| RAINBOWSGRAVITY | Novel about the seriousness of a weather phenomenon? |
| EXTENUATE | Lessen the seriousness of (an offence) with a mitigating factor |
| EXTENUATING | Lessening the seriousness of nun getting tangled up in exit gate (11) |
