| INORBIT | Circling the sun, as a planet |
| PECULIARITY | Typical ruse I developed when lacking sun as a quirk (11) |
| YEAR | Time spent circling the sun |
| SPAR | Iceland -; type of crystal used by the Vikings to find the direction of the sun as an aid for navigation (4) |
| HELIO | ___centric, with the Sun as the centre |
| ORBIT | Term for the path of a body revolving around an attracting centre of mass, as a planet around the Sun or a satellite around a planet (5) |
| APHELION | Cephalonia's interior is steaming - get as far from the sun as possible |
| MELT | Give in to the sun, as snow |
| JERK | Dry in the sun, as strips of beef |
| ENTHUSIASM | Heat from the sun as I'm swimming (10) |
| DRYOUT | Let sit in the sun, as wet laundry |
| LIGHTOFMYLIFE | My wife, for instance in The Sun as I see it (5,2,2,4) |
| PLUTO | The second-largest known dwarf planet in the solar system, classified as a planet until 2006 (5) |
| KYRGYZSTAN | This country's flag features the blazing sun as viewed through the ceiling hole of a yurt |
| WORLD | The earth as a planet (5) |
| TELLURIC | Of the earth as a planet |
| SAND | Sun as well as a beach (4) |
| ALBEDO | Proportion of solar light that a body such as a planet, moon or asteroid reflects (6) |
| HERSCHEL | German-born British astronomer whose discovery of what he believed to be a comet, which he named after George III, was later identified as a planet and renamed Uranus (8) |
| TERRAFORM | Make inhabitable, as a planet (and a new Merriam-Webster entry of 2022) |
