| HALLEY | English astronomer (6) |
| EDMOND | English astronomer best known for computing the orbit of an eponymous comet (6,6) |
| URANUS | Planet discovered by Sir William Herschel, English astronomer of Jewish descent (6) |
| TRITON | Largest satellite of Neptune, discovered by English astronomer William Lassell in 1846 (6) |
| PIGOTT | Nathaniel and Edward --, English astronomers (6) |
| FLAMSTEED | John ___ (1646-1719), English astronomer appointed the first Astronomer Royal in 1675 (9) |
| BRADLEY | James --, 1693-1762, English astronomer (7) |
| WREN | English astronomer-turned-architect |
| HOYLE | English astronomer (5) |
| HALLE | English astronomer snubbed in German city (5) |
| GALILEO | Bad Manners admits Number One upsets old English astronomer (7) |
| EDDINGTON | English astronomer who observed bending of light by gravity in 1919 (9) |
| AIRY | English astronomer royal from 1835 to 1881 (4) |
| SIRFREDHOYLE | English astronomer who propounded the steady state theory of the universe |
| HERSCHEL | English astronomer (son of William Herschel) who extended the catalogue of stars to the southern hemisphere and did pioneering work in photography (17921871). |
| HALLEYSCOMET | Astronomical object last observed from earth in 1986 and named after an English astronomer (7,5) |
| UMBRIEL | Moon of Uranus discovered by English astronomer William Lassell in 1851 and named after a character in Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock (1712) |
| ARIEL | Brightest moon of Uranus, discovered by English astronomer William Lassell in 1851 (5) |
| MIMAS | The smallest and innermost of the major regular moons of Saturn. It was discovered in 1789 by the English astronomer William Herschel. Its most noteworthy feature is a 130-km- (80-mile-) diameter crat |
| ENCELADUS | The second nearest of the major regular moons of Saturn, the brightest of all its moons, and discovered in 1789 by the English astronomer William Herschel. The surface is almost pure water ice, with t |
