| CELESTIALSPHERE | Imaginary shell formed by the sky |
| TACO | Dish with a shell formed by a folded tortilla |
| AMELIA | Joni Mitchell song with the lyrics "A ghost of aviation / She was swallowed by the sky" |
| ELBOW | Hinge joint of the body formed by the junction of the radius and ulna with the humerus (5) |
| CANTHI | The inner or outer corners of the eyes, formed by the natural junction of the eyelids (6) |
| TOPS | With the giant letter formed by the black squares immediately above this answer, what the answers to the starred clues all literally have |
| ANKLE | Joint formed by the articulation of the lower leg bones with the talus (5) |
| LAP | The area formed by the upper surface of the thighs of a seated person (3) |
| CALDERA | A large basin-shaped crater at the top of a volcano, formed by the explosion of the cone (7) |
| SSNZ | Which acronym is the name of the association formed by the Southern Hemisphere's four leading rugby nations? (7) |
| LAVA | Magma (molten rock) that emerges as a liquid onto Earth's surface. The term is also used for the solidified rock formed by the cooling of a molten flow. (4) |
| ISOSCELES | Like the figure formed by the three circled letters in the upper right |
| SCALENE | Like the figure formed by the three circled letters in the upper left |
| CUSPS | The tips of a crescent moon; or, the points formed by the meeting of curves in Gothic tracery (5) |
| EQUILATERAL | Like the figure formed by the three circled letters at the bottom |
| PIPELINE | Place for works that are in the works ... or what the message formed by the connected letters is? |
| OTHELLO | Disc-flipping board game hinted at by a word ladder formed by the answers to the nine starred clues |
| USWNT | Competitors who reached the knockout stage in the World Cup this month before being eliminated, for short; their full name is formed by the first words of theme entries |
| ADAMSAPPLE | Feature formed by the thyroid cartilage of the larynx |
| KNUCKLE | Prominence formed by the ends of the two adjacent bones |
