| CRATER | Meteorite bruise on a planet (6) |
| SADDLESORE | Bruise on a horse's back caused by chafing (6,4) |
| LANDER | A spacecraft designed to come to rest on a planet or other body (6) |
| IMPACT | Meteorite ___ site |
| NICKEL | Meteorite metal |
| STONES | Word for various hard objects including cherry pips, cobbles, gems, granites for curling, pellets of hail, querns or rocky meteorites (6) |
| ASWARM | Word for "teeming", as in bees, flies, humans, locusts, meteorites or life (6) |
| ANTIPODES | Points opposite each other on a planet |
| NEPTUNE | Write about air on a planet |
| APES | Creatures who were told to get their damned, dirty hands off Charlton Heston on a planet in some fut |
| BLACKEYE | Bruise on face |
| BITE | Black eye initially violet, forming bruise on skin (4,4) |
| LOVE | Black eye initially violet, forming bruise on skin (4,4) |
| TEKTITE | From Greek for "molten", a glassy object formed during a meteorite's high-energy impact on Earth (7) |
| BIGBERTHA | Nickname of Lunar Sample 14321, a moon rock containing an Earth-origin meteorite collected by the Apollo 14 mission in 1971 (3,6) |
| NASTAPOKA | ___ Arc (Formation on the Quebec side of Hudson Bay which is mysterious in origin, some believe it was possibly formed by a meteorite) |
| IRON | Ferrum occurring in some types of meteorites; a stirrup; or, a safety curtain in a theatre (4) |
| SIDERITE | A meteorite mainly of metallic iron (8) |
| AEROLITE | An alternative name for a meteorite (8) |
| ASTEROID | Raised to become a meteorite (8) |
