| NEBULA | Neptune: a ball in pieces circling a remarkably hollow luminous cloud (9,6) |
| PLANETARY | Neptune: a ball in pieces circling a remarkably hollow luminous cloud (9,6) |
| RATTLER | Pit viper, a remarkably good specimen |
| STROKE | A beat of a heart; a hit of a ball in golf or tennis; a solidus or virgule; a pull of an oar; a sound of a clock's chime; or, a sudden sweep of genius or luck (6) |
| AUREOLA | In art, a golden or luminous cloud represented encircling the body or head of a saint or other sacred personage; or, a halo around the sun or moon (7) |
| COMA | Luminous cloud around comet's nucleus or a long period of unconsciousness |
| NIMBUS | After setter leaves, minibus crashes producing luminous cloud (6) |
| UNDERCUT | To hit a ball (in cricket, say) in such a way as to cause a backspin (8) |
| DRIVE | A forceful stroke of a ball in sports; ground over which game is chased; or, a private road leading to a house (5) |
| TACKLE | Word for apparatus, fishing gear, rigging etc from which a term for an equestrian kit derives; a pulley; a block, deflection, play or take of a ball in sport; or, Jilly Cooper's latest title (6) |
| COQUET | A technique of hitting a ball in a lawn game played with hoops and mallets (6) |
| TEEUP | Place a ball in a position to start a game of golf (3,2) |
| NIMBUSES | Luminous clouds depicted surrounding deities |
| TAPAS | Bugs circling a sort of bar in Benidorm? (5) |
| WARREN | Bird circling a run in rabbits" home (6) |
| NOAHSARK | Rescue vessel in drama circling a small island |
| SASHAY | Walk in ostentatious fashion, for instance, circling a tree |
| ADULATORY | Admiring area in appropriate manner, circling a hill |
| NATURALISTIC | Representative uncovered person circling a lake in Colorado initially |
| MANORHOUSE | Timid character circling a point where temperature's dropped in large building |
