| METEORSHOWER | Eg, the Perseids |
| COMET | A celestial body such as Swift-Tuttle that led Giovanni Schiaparelli to discover in 1865 that said body was the source of the Perseids (5) |
| SHOWER | Downpour of rain; or, a celestial event such as the Perseids when a number of meteors radiate (6) |
| METEORSWARM | Such as the Leonids or Perseids |
| METEOR | Any one of the many "shooting stars" present during an annual Perseids shower (6) |
| ETEORSHOWER | Perseids or Leonids (2 wds.) |
| DISPERSE | Flying Perseids scatter |
| VESPER | Observes Perseids traversed by Venus (6) |
| TROCHLEA | Anatomical structure resembling or acting like a pulley, e.g. the notch at the base of the humerus where it articulates with the ulna (8) |
| CREATIVITY | Eg. the use of the imagination (10) |
| SYZYGIES | Conjunctions, especially in astronomy; eg the moon and the sun (8) |
| WEWEREAT | 24s could say, eg: "The cooler was the Tower originally" (2,4,2) |
| DELTA | Flat area at the mouth of some rivers, e.g. the Mississippi, where the river breaks up into different channels. (5) |
| PUTSCH | Eg the Nazis' attempted overthrow of the Weimar Republic, at a Munich beer hall in 1923 (6) |
| TIPOFTHEICEBERG | Only part of the problem is eg the fibre-optic, sadly |
| SYZYGY | Straight-line conjunction or opposition of three celestial bodies, e.g. the Sun, the Earth and the Moon (6) |
| PRIMA | First, eg the Argo was the first ship, ____ ... carina, Ovid Met. 6.721 |
| LAPSUSLINGUAE | Eg, the queer old dean — it's literally the tongue's fault |
| ARSERE | They blazed (short form), eg the eyes of the Palladium, Aen. 2.172 |
| EXOCARP | Outermost layer of the pericarp of fruits, eg. the skin of a peach or grape (7) |
