| APSIS | In an orbit, the point of greatest or least distance from the central body (5) |
| PEAK | At the point of greatest demand (4) |
| FUSELAGE | The central body of an aeroplane that is designed to accommodate the crew and passengers (or cargo) |
| SUNDER | The central body in the solar system scarlet-backed is separate (6) |
| FLACO | Owl that escaped from the Central Park Zoo in 2023 and became an online celebrity, before his death last month |
| ENATE | In biology, growing outward or away from the central axis |
| NADIR | The lowest or least successful point (5) |
| SHELL | Principal energy level of an electron in an atom, often visualised as an orbit (5) |
| TORSO | Central body part (5) |
| WAIST | Central body measurement (5) |
| OFALL | Words after most or least |
| ATTHE | Words with earliest or least |
| PERIGEE | Point of least distance in the Moon's orbit of the Earth (7) |
| APOGEE | Point in an orbit most distant from the body being orbited (6) |
| DECAY | Become unstable, as an orbit |
| APHELION | Extreme point in an orbit whose name in question declares it "away from" its life-giving star, the Sun (8) |
| VESTIGE | Word, from French via Latin for "footprint", for a trace or remnant of something disappearing, gone or lost; or, a scrap, shred or least amount (7) |
| TWINPEAHS | Identical sibling reached point of greatest achievement second in TV programme (4,5) |
| SABINES | Italic people from the central Apennine Mountains who predated the rise of Rome (7) |
| APOLUNE | Farthest point in an orbit around the moon |
