| SNARK | Imaginary animal hunted from one end of earth to the other by boat (5) |
| NORTHPOLE | One end of Earth's axis |
| DYKES | Walls of earth to halt flooding (5) |
| WANNABET | "Care to wager?" ... and a question answered, one way or the other, by the first words of the answers to starred clues |
| WREST | Violently twist the others, by the sound of it (5) |
| EDITED | Changed the heart of every cop at the end of Earth Day |
| ALTERNATE | One after the other by turns (9) |
| EMBANKMENT | Wall of earth to stop in London |
| ARREST | Stop the others by a river (6) |
| POLAR | From one end of the Earth or the other (5) |
| NICER | What "Mean Girls" end up being to each other, by the end of Act II |
| ALONG | From one end of to the other |
| UCLAN | Students with the motto From the Earth to the Sun informally |
| MASAI | see 16ac, Name given to the murder of Ernst Rehm and others by the SS on Hitler's orders (5,2,3,4,6) |
| PRIZE | see 16ac, Name given to the murder of Ernst Rehm and others by the SS on Hitler's orders (5,2,3,4,6) |
| WINDS | see 16ac, Name given to the murder of Ernst Rehm and others by the SS on Hitler's orders (5,2,3,4,6) |
| VIREN | see 16ac, Name given to the murder of Ernst Rehm and others by the SS on Hitler's orders (5,2,3,4,6) |
| LEACH | see 16ac, Name given to the murder of Ernst Rehm and others by the SS on Hitler's orders (5,2,3,4,6) |
| LAKES | see 16ac, Name given to the murder of Ernst Rehm and others by the SS on Hitler's orders (5,2,3,4,6) |
| TWIST | see 16ac, Name given to the murder of Ernst Rehm and others by the SS on Hitler's orders (5,2,3,4,6) |
