| THETRANSITOFMERCURY | 24 bandwagon back in the day, an occasional feature on the front of The Sun? |
| THETRANSIT | 24 bandwagon back in the day, an occasional feature on the front of The Sun? (3,7,2,7) |
| OFMERCURY | 24 bandwagon back in the day, an occasional feature on the front of The Sun? (3,7,2,7) |
| DASH | While in the day an hour will go very quickly (4) |
| SOLARECLIPSE | Passage of the Moon in front of the Sun (5,7) |
| GRILLE | Feature on the front of a car |
| THEME | Occasional feature of crosswords from a particular setter |
| ELNINO | In meteorology, an occasional warming of the eastern tropical Pacific which disrupts the weather pattern of the region (2,4) |
| LINCOLN | Abraham, U.S. president whose portrait features on the front of the five dollar bill (7) |
| EARTH | With temperatures up to 6000 degrees C, the core of which planet is hotter than the surface of the Sun? (5) |
| TIC | An occasional involuntary contraction of the muscles, especially of the face (3) |
| CUDDLE | About the day an affectionate hold was misclued (6) |
| HEART | Pumping 2,000 gallons of blood per day, an organ studied in cardiologyA (5) |
| TANNING | Source of flavour in wines - good effect of the sun? |
| DARKAGES | Out of The Sun? Receiving The Times for a period (4,4) |
| SUBSCRIBER | Fill in for old writer reading to one expecting to get lots of the sun? (10) |
| INCA | Who were the people that believed their first ruler, Manco Capac, was a descendant of the sun? (4) |
| WHALE | Sea mammal that is an occasional visitor to Mallorcan waters, a member of the finback variety, the second largest cetacean, was spotted off the island's coast earlier this year (5) |
| MEMENTO | What's taken from the event? Blokes engaged in jumping on bandwagon mostly |
| JUMPS | Gets on the bandwagon as a retriever overcomes obstacles in leaps and bounds (5) |
