| PIVOTAL | Important rising star oddly missing football (7) |
| CHARLIE | Buttonholing guy on lake, one does delay rising star (7,7) |
| CHAPLIN | Buttonholing guy on lake, one does delay rising star (7,7) |
| COMFIER | More settled, rising star takes motor-racing on board (7) |
| DELEDIO | Richmond's 2005 Rising Star, at GWS from 2017, Brett ... (7) |
| NUANCES | Shades of party energy in rising star (7) |
| LETITIA | Wright, who was 2019's BAFTA Rising Star (7) |
| NERVOUS | Apprehensive rising star confused over lines (7) |
| HASLEBY | Fremantle midfielder, 2000 Rising Star winner, Paul ... (7) |
| LUCIFER | Rising star once a match for Dickens |
| NONPLUS | Rising star covers place next to leg stump |
| AVIGNON | Rising star drinking mixed gin in European city |
| LEGIRON | Rising star getting ovation, outwardly showing restraint |
| ESTEEMS | Thinks a lot of rising stars meet security guards (7) |
| MONROE | Astronomer has star confused with this star, oddly (6) |
| ROSALIA | La Noche de Anoche singer who received Billboard Women in Music's Rising Star Award in 2019 |
| DOECHII | What It Is (Block Boy) singer who received Billboard Women in Music's Rising Star Award in 2023 |
| TETRARCH | Herod? Cunning after the star oddly makes appearance above |
| SCOTLANDYARD | Detectives can star, oddly, in remake |
| SACRED | Religious belief almost undermining star, oddly (6) |
