| EXALTATION | Flock of larks; or, a planet's position of greatest zodiacal influence (10) |
| APRILFOOL | Either a lark or a gull in springtime? |
| BEVY | A group of larks or quail |
| CIRCLE | An arrangement of standing stones, such as that at Avebury; a ring of flattened grain stalks in a crop field; or, a planet's orbit (6) |
| CYCLE | A bike ride; biological body clock or biorhythm; or, a planet's orbit (5) |
| GEOLOGICAL | Ego affected by sound of a planet's structure (10) |
| GREENHOUSE | The ___ effect describes how the radiation from a planet's atmosphere warms the surface of that planet by preventing the heat from escaping into space |
| PERIHELION | *Point in a planet's orbit that's closest to the sun |
| PEEWEE | From Scots for "little, tiny", word for a small child, mini toy marble or other diminutive person/thing; or, one of the onomatopoeic epithets of a lapwing, magpie lark or tyrant flycatcher (6) |
| PHASES | Aspects of the moon or a planet in terms of the amount of illumination (6) |
| ORBIT | Path of an electron around an atomic nucleus, or a planet around a star (5) |
| NOUNSOFASSEMBLAGE | Exaltation of larks, gang of elk and charm of goldfinches, for example |
| ATTHESHARPEND | In the position of greatest danger (2,3,5,3) |
| SHARPEND | At the ____, expression meaning 'in the position of greatest difficulty' (5,3) |
| PHASE | Any of the cyclically recurring forms of the moon or a planet, resulting from surface illumination by the Sun (5) |
| SATURN | The alchemical name for lead; or, a planet with a ring system home to possibly millions of moonlets (6) |
| ORB | Shape of a marble or a planet |
| MERCURY | An element, a god or a planet? (7) |
| URANUS | Are you a heavenly body or a planet? (6) |
| THOMPSON | Author of Lark Rise to Candleford, a semi-autobiographical trilogy of novels based on rural life in the Oxfordshire hamlet of Juniper Hill (8) |
