| MAJORTOM | David Bowie persona described as “a junkie, strung out in heaven’s high, hitting an all-time low’ |
| SKRY | Take in heaven’s vault to set about divination |
| MORETTI | Italian beer described as “L’Autentica” |
| TENSE | Strung out in a manner of speaking (5) |
| TENNISNET | One strung out in a court before judges? |
| MAJOR | David Bowie persona referenced in songs including 1969's Space Oddity, _ Tom (5) |
| ZIGGYSTARDUST | David Bowie persona in 1970s glam rock |
| SENIOR | Term for a 12th grade student in a U.S. high school (6) |
| RAQUET | Technique or action of hitting an opponents ball in a traditional lawn game played with mallets and |
| ZIGGY | ___ Stardust, David Bowie persona (5) |
| PARF | Kind of hole on which a double eagle is possible without hitting an ace |
| EAGLE | Darwin's ship loses prow, the result of almost hitting an albatross? (5) |
| CATGUT | Tom Thumb, it's said, might be strung out and enmeshed in a racket (6) |
| SERVANT | “A ____ only, and a gentleman / Which I have sometime known” (All’s Well That Ends Well) |
| EMERALD | “A livelier ____ twinkles in the grass, / A purer sapphire melts into the sea” (Tennyson, in Maud) |
| HORTONHEARSAWHO | “A person’s a person, no matter how small” is a line from this book by Dr Seuss |
| OBELI | By the way, that’s Nero’s high priest showing marks of corruption? |
| TURTLESALLTHEWAYDOWN | 40A once quoted this phrase, attributed to “a little old lady” in a post-lecture Q&A, which expresses the philosophical problem of infinite regress |
| NATURALISTIC | “A ____ Christianity leaves out all that is specifically Christian” (CS Lewis) |
| IVANHOE | “____ by Sir Walter Scott” is an anagram of “A novel by a Scottish writer” |
