| PERSEIDS | Meteor showers that are associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle and are visible every August (8) |
| ROSES | Flowers that are associated with being presented on Saint Valentine's Day (5) |
| LEONID | Any member of the annual meteor shower associated with the comet Tempel-Tuttle (6) |
| HORSEMEN | What, representing War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death, are associated with the Apocalypse? (8) |
| COMET | A celestial body such as Swift-Tuttle that led Giovanni Schiaparelli to discover in 1865 that said body was the source of the Perseids (5) |
| PYTHON | These constricting snakes are associated with the tropics, but some species prefer desert homes (6) |
| TULIPS | What flowers are associated with the Netherlands? (6) |
| HALEY | Lead singer with the Comets |
| BILLHALEY | 1950s singer with the Comets (4,5) |
| URICACID | By product of digestion; high levels are associated with gout (4,4) |
| SOMERSET | Unexpected meteor showers completely gutted part of England (8) |
| PROPHECY | The Comet 1s Coming's debut EP (8) |
| TANTALUS | Stand in which alcohol decanters are visible but locked up (8) |
| CHARGERS | Different types of them are associated with each starred answer |
| LEONIDES | Annual meteor showers |
| CONFETTI | Shower that doesn't spoil a parade? |
| APRIL | Month in which cuckoos typically arrive in the UK, Lyrid meteor showers occur as a result of the historical Comet Thatcher and downpours are likely (5) |
| LEONIDS | Meteor shower peaking annually around November 17-18, caused by Earth crossing the path of a dust trail left behind by the comet Tempel-Tuttle (7) |
| IMPASTO | Painting that applies the pigment thickly so that brush or palette knife marks are visible. |
| EDMOND | Forename of the astronomer who used Newton's laws of motion to predict the return of the comet that was later named in his honour (6) |
