| LACERTA | Not very bright stars - a sure thing in Los Angeles (7) |
| THROUGH | Word after "Whose broad stripes and bright stars" in the national anthem |
| DONOVAN | Fellow taking in star, a 60s singer (7) |
| THEWAIN | Moral quality with Sturgeon's own group of bright stars |
| SUNBIRD | Flyer for star, a peculiar sort (7) |
| RAVIOLI | Pasta dish displayed by star, a violininst (7) |
| CONCERTO | Musical piece a sure thing in company? Definitely not (8) |
| SHOOIN | A sure thing in such as Oxford pub, we hear (4-2) |
| ORION | A constellation containing seven very bright stars (5) |
| SUPERNOVAE | Excited Europeans welcome very bright stars (10) |
| NEBULA | Word, from "cloud, mist", for a cloudlike cluster of stars; a galaxy; a slight opacity/fogginess of a cornea; cloudiness; or, liquid for spraying (6) |
| BETA | Beat performance of a very bright star |
| SUNBLOCK | Screen from a very bright star (8) |
| DENEB | Very bright star seen in wide nebula (5) |
| ORIONSBELT | A group of three bright stars in a constellation named after a mythological Greek hunter (6,4) |
| OPENANDSHUTCASE | *Sure thing in a courtroom |
| CONCERTGOER | Sure thing in African state, queen being music-lover |
| CASSIOPEIA | Northern constellation with five bright stars in a W shape |
| ORIONS | Three bright stars appearing evenly spaced in a straight line, commonly known as "___ Belt" |
| LEO | Lion constellation from whose "mane" of stars a swarm of meteors radiates annually in November (3) |
