| REENTRIES | Comes down time and time again as to how the space cadets return to earth (2-7) |
| ESCAPED | Cat got away from the space cadet (7) |
| RESURGENT | Rising again, as to a new life (9) |
| PASTEURISES | Louis & I got three directions as to how the factory treats milk (11) |
| SHOTDOWN | Disproved one's argument as to how the pilot got captured? (4,4) |
| RENEW | Subscribe again, as to the Free Press |
| ROVER | Right again as to what the dog's called? (5) |
| BOOKDROPS | Places to return library materials, and a hint to how the authors in four Down clues help complete the answers to the starred clues |
| LEFTRIGHT | Repeated words in a drill sergeant's marching order, and a hint to how the first and second word, in |
| WRITTENUP | Had put a full description down as to how book value had been increased (7,2) |
| INTENDING | Meaning one attached to how the Book of Revelation may be seen? |
| TOUCHDOWN | aircraft's return to earth |
| VACANTLOT | Group of space cadets? |
| ASTRONAUT | Space cadet (9) |
| IMOUT | "Peace!," and a hint to how the answers to the starred clues were formed |
| YOURADHERE | Words on an empty billboard, and a hint to how the answers to the starred clues were formed |
| OMNIDIRECTIONAL | Like the answers to eight starred clues ... and a hint as to how to fill them in |
| EVERYTHINGBUT | Musicians Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt, and a hint as to how to enter answers to asterisked clues * (13) |
| EXTRAMAYO | Sandwich request, and a literal hint to how the answers at 19-, 27-, 46- and 54-Across are formed |
| HEAVEHO | Dismissal, and a hint to how the answers to starred clues were derived |
