| FORTYTWO | In the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, it's the answer to 'Life, the Universe and Everything' (5-3) |
| CATCHALL | Burglar on college building covers everything (5-3) |
| GLEANS | Gathers it's the answer to a leg-break |
| ANSWER | - to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything; number 42 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (6) |
| SCIFI | Some terrific stuff in retrospect: like Life, the Universe and Everything? (3-2) |
| DOUGLASADAMS | Author of Life, the Universe and Everything (7,5) |
| RECREATION | Play about Life, The Universe and Everything (10) |
| COSMOS | The universe and everything |
| ALECBALDWIN | It's Complicated actor who narrated the scientific documentaries Journey to the Edge of the Universe and Frozen Planet: 2 wds. |
| THEMEANINGOFLIFE | What the computer Deep Thought was programmed to figure out in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" |
| PANIC | Don't -; one of the catchphrases in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (5) |
| ALMAGEST | A work on astronomy, compiled by Ptolemy in the 2nd century AD, containing a description of the geocentric system of the universe and a star catalogue |
| DNA | "You do it 'cause you love it like nothing else in the universe / And **** it, it's embedded in your ___" (lyric in Watsky's "Fireworks") |
| LAZER | Major ---, electronic band that has released the albums Free The Universe and Peace Is The Mission ( |
| BRIAN | First name of Professor Cox, Wonders Of The Universe and The Planets presenter (5) |
| MARVIN | The 'paranoid android' in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy |
| FORDPREFECT | In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the character named after a car |
| DENT | Who is the Earthman (Arthur ___) who space-travels in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? (4) |
| COX | Presenter of numerous BBC science programmes including Wonders of the Universe and Forces of Nature. (3) |
| FAINTLY | "as he heard the snow falling ... through the universe and ... falling" (James Joyce) |
