| AETHER | Personification of the sky or upper air breathed by the Olympians. |
| URANUS | Personification of the sky, who, as a god, ruled the univers (6) |
| FAIRLY | Air breathed in by pilot pretty well (6) |
| SERENE | From the Latin for "clear", a word used to mean fair, pure or unclouded, as of the sky or the air; calm, peaceful and tranquil; or, as part of a royal title, honoured (6) |
| BLUE | Colour of the sky or the sea (4) |
| HEAVEN | Name for the firmament or apparent abode of God, regarded as beyond the sky; or, by extension, a place or state of supreme bliss (6) |
| DORSAL | Belonging to or on or near the back or upper surface of an animal or organ or part. |
| ALAN | Rickman of 'Eye in the Sky,' or Parsons who wrote 'Eye in the Sky' |
| LAPS | Coils of rope, cable etc needed to go around objects, hence circuits of racetracks; an old word for folds of garments; stages of journeys; or, upper parts of thighs when seated (4) |
| SKY | Old Norse for "cloud" originally, later the nubiferous region occupied by said nephological mass; azure or cerulean; the heavens; weather; or, upper rows of pictures in a gallery (3) |
| LOFT | From the Old English for "air, sky", an attic, haymow, pigeon shed or other raised place or upper room; or, elevation imparted to a golf ball (4) |
| ALOFT | High up, like an eagle in the sky - or in an attic, by the sound of it (5) |
| RANGER | see 17dn, The term coined by Peter York in 1975 for a young upper-class or upper-middle-class person living in Chelsea or Kensington |
| SLOANE | and 28dn, The term coined by Peter York in 1975 for a young upper-class or upper-middle-class person living in Chelsea or Kensington |
| CELESTIAL | Relating to the sky or the heavens (9) |
| MIDAIR | Occurring in the sky or well above the ground (3-3) |
| ZENITH | The point in the sky or celestial sphere that is directly above an observer (6) |
| METEORITE | See this crossing the sky or meet it broken on top of earth |
| ETHER | The setter must leave one or other in the upper air (5) |
| BRIDGES | Elevated structures with arches or catenaries forming passageways over ravines, valleys or waterways; or, things arching/connecting, such as cue supports, lens-linking midsections of spectacles or upp |
