| SUPERFICIAL | Forming the surface (11) |
| ENAMEL | Material forming the surface of a tooth (6) |
| STRATOPAUSE | Level of the atmosphere forming the boundary between the stratosphere and the mesosphere, around 30 miles above sea level (11) |
| THESHADOWIN | 2007 BBC TV film based on the 1986 Philip Pullman novel forming the second part of the Sally Lockhart Quartet |
| FLORIDAKEYS | Archipelago forming the southernmost part of the continental U.S. |
| NERVECENTRE | The ganglion of neurons forming the body's command arena, thus any base, control room, HQ or hub (5,6) |
| MEKONGDELTA | Extensive outlet forming the southern tip of Vietnam |
| STIRUPDRAMA | Create tension in a group, and a direction that was followed when forming the answer to each starred clue? |
| PUGLIA | Italian name for the region forming the heel of the boot of Italy, site of Lecce, the so-called "Florence of the South" (6) |
| RIB | Any one of the curved pieces of wood forming the sides of a violin or the body of a lute; ornamental band on the spine of a book; or, an arch separating the webs of a vault (3) |
| EUPHRATES | The longer of the two rivers forming the region known as 'Mesopotamia' to the Greeks (9) |
| TUCANA | One of the constellations forming the "Southern Birds" with Grus the Crane, Pavo the Peacock and Phoenix (6) |
| STLEGER | One of the five Classics forming the British flat race season which is the final leg of the English Triple Crown (2,5) |
| VEGA | Forming the Summer Triangle asterism with Altair and Deneb, the brightest star in the northern constellation Lyra the "lyre" (4) |
| DELTOID | Thick muscle forming the rounded contour of the outer edge of the shoulder and acting to raise the arm |
| INSTEP | The middle section of the human foot, forming the arch between the ankle and toes |
| BOBBIN | Spool in a sewing machine that holds the thread forming the stitches on the bottom side of the fabric (6) |
| LOVEINIDLENESS | Also known as heartsease, the flower forming the basis of the elixir that bewitches Titania into fal |
| RETINA | Light-sensitive membrane forming the inner lining of the back of the eye (6) |
| ANIMALS | General term for the organisms forming the subject matter of many of the books for children by Dick |
