| NISSENHUT | Metal building in the sun's started melting (6,3) |
| UNSPARING | Merciless sun started peeling off the skin (9) |
| HEAD | Spooner's metal building an irritating thing? (4,5) |
| PLACEMAT | A bit of napery Penny and Bill stored inside metal building (5,3) |
| KILOMETRE | King has one large remote building in the distance (9) |
| TREEHOUSE | Building in the branches (4,5) |
| GUILDHALL | Prominent building in the City of London (9) |
| LANCASTER | Ancestral building in the city? (9) |
| SPOT | A dark planet-sized area in the Sun's photosphere as the result of a localised fall in temperature to around 4,000K, some 3,700 degrees C (4) |
| FLARES | Pyrotechnics for signalling at sea; trousers that widen progressively from the knees down; or, eruptions in the Sun's chromosphere (6) |
| BASKS | Soaks in the sun's rays |
| RAREFY | Thin? Judge in the Sun's issue (6) |
| SINGER | ___ Building, company headquarters erected in 1908 in New York City, at the time the tallest building in the world |
| SHARD | The ___ 95-story skyscraper that is the tallest building in the U.K. and the European Union designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano |
| ELYSIAN | The ___ tower in Cork is the tallest building in the state. (7) |
| SEARS | Which (___ Tower) in Chicago was the tallest building in the world when completed in 1973? (5) |
| BURJKHALIFA | In Dubai, the tallest building in the world (4,7) |
| DUBAI | Arab city with the Burj Khalifa the tallest building in the world |
| SORBONNE | The ___, building in the Latin Quarter associated with the former University of Paris (8) |
| COLOGNE | City on the Rhine; its gothic cathedral was the tallest building in the world, 1880-4 |
