| YUCATAN | Location of Earth's own big bang (7) |
| MICHAEL | _ McIntyre, comic with his own Big Show (7) |
| MARIANATRENCH | Location of Earth's greatest ocean depth |
| AINTREE | North of the Border, own large growth, of course, south of the Border (7) |
| LENO | Entertainer who owns Big Dog Productions |
| LAIRDS | People who own large estates in Scotland (6) |
| LORDOFTHEMANOR | Frequently, in short, hotel door man managed his own large estate (4,2,3,5) |
| BRADLEY | Scientist known for his discovery of the aberration of light and for observing the oscillation of Earth's axis (nutation), who succeeded Edmond Halley as Astronomer Royal in 1742 (7) |
| PASSAGE | Drake -; also known as the Mar de Hoces, one of Earth's roughest sections of sea (7) |
| VOLCANO | Any one of Earth's 1,500 geologic landforms whose magma forms 80 per cent of the world's surface (7) |
| PROFILE | Side view of a head; a biographical sketch; a vertical section of Earth's crust showing its strata; or, a user's personal page on social media (7) |
| PACIFIC | Biggest of Earth's oceans (7) |
| IGNEOUS | Formed by solidification of earth's internal molten matter (7) |
| MOONSET | Going down of Earth's satellite (7) |
| HARVEST | Volume gathered, in terms of Earth's production? (7) |
| EQUATOR | Divider of Earths hemispheres |
| SUMATRA | One of the world's top-ten largest islands, home to some of Earth's rarest animal and plant species |
| OROGENS | In geomorphology, linear belts of Earth's crust pushed upwards to form mountains (7) |
| IRIDIUM | Derived from the Latin word for rainbow, one of Earth's rarest elements (7) |
| FELSPAR | Forming some 60 per cent of Earth's crust, a mineral whose gem varieties include amazonite, aventurine, labradorite, moonstone and sunstone (7) |
