| GROUNDWORK | Operate near the earth to produce the necessary basis (10) |
| FLOWERPOT | "I'll put a girdle, round about the earth" to produce herb |
| LANDRAIL | The bird will make a track near the earth (8) |
| GROUNDWAVE | Radio emission near the Earth's surface |
| TOPSOIL | The very best fuel is found on or near the earth's surface (7) |
| EPIGENE | Occurring near the earth's surface |
| FALLENIDOL | Graham Greene adapted his short story The Basement Room to produce the screen play for the 1948 film The ____ |
| JEANPICARD | 17th-century French astronomer who measured the size of the Earth to a reasonable degree of accuracy (4,6) |
| ASTRONOMICALUNIT | Distance equal to the mean distance from the centre of the earth to the centre of the sun (12,4) |
| POLARICECAPS | What one has to go to the ends of the Earth to find |
| ICECAP | You'll have to go to the ends of the earth to find this top hat (3,3) |
| MARS | This planet was given the name of the Roman god of war. In Henry VI, Part 1 (act 1, scene 2), Charles, Dauphin of France says, "___ his moving, even as in the heavens / So in the earth, to this day is |
| YEAR | The period it takes the Earth to travel around the sun |
| UCLAN | Students with the motto From the Earth to the Sun informally |
| BRYANCRANSTON | Breaking Bad actor who played real-life astronaut Buzz Aldrin in the 1998 HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon: 2 wds. |
| VERNE | "From the Earth to the Moon" writer |
| UNIT | Astronomical ___ (mean distance from the earth to the sun) |
| NASA | Org. in "From the Earth to the Moon" |
| GIRL | Beatles song with the line "And she promises the earth to me" |
| LAYER | Bend a shoot to the earth to root (5) |
