| EXOPLANET | Body orbiting a star other than the sun |
| PLANET | Celestial body orbiting a star (6) |
| CANDLE | Form of illumination prior to the light bulb other than the Sun or the "parish lantern", or Moon (6) |
| SYSTEM | Set of gravitationally bound planets orbiting a star; scheme of classification; or, methodicalness (6) |
| SATELLITE | A celestial body orbiting a planet or star (9) |
| LEGBYE | In cricket, a run scored after the ball has touched a part of the batsman's body other than the hand without touching the bat (3,3) |
| REDGIANT | Large luminous star which is in a late phase of stellar evolution and has a radii hundreds of times larger than the Sun (3,5) |
| OUTSHINE | Do better than The Sun or upstage The Star? (8) |
| SHANK | A golf shot in which a player mistakenly hits a ball with a part of the club other than the face (5) |
| KSTAR | Body cooler than the sun |
| SUPERGIANT | Massive, luminous body larger than the sun |
| APOGEE | In astronomy, the point furthest from Earth in the path of a body orbiting the planet (6) |
| METEOROID | A small celestial body orbiting the sun that hasn't entered the earth's atmosphere |
| HUBBARD | A winter squash other than the acorn, buttercup/nut, carnival or delicata; or, with "Mother", a loose flowing gown, named after a nursery-rhyme dame with a bare cupboard (7) |
| HUNK | Guy who's hotter than the sun |
| COMET | Small frozen body orbiting the sun (5) |
| ASTEROID | Small rocky body orbiting the sun |
| LAYREADER | In the Anglican Church, a non-ordained person licensed by a bishop to conduct certain services other than the Eucharist (3,6) |
| HAZARD | In billiards, a winning --- is a scoring stroke made when a ball other than the striker's is pocketed (6) |
| WORSE | "___ than the sun in March, This praise doth nourish agues." Shakespeare, Henry IV (5) |
