| URANO | Prefix meaning "heavens, sky", as found in a word for the celestial cartography that studies all things unearthly, way up high (5) |
| COMETS | Word for the celestial "long-haired" stars or icy wanderers with luminous tails of gas and dust (6) |
| SKYATLASES | Celestial cartography |
| FIRMAMENT | Heavens, sky |
| ETHER | Heavens, sky |
| CAELUM | Latin word for "heaven, sky" and unconnectedly "chisel", hence given as the name of the Chisel constellation (6) |
| HALFMOON | Not a wholesome time for the celestial body (4-4) |
| ANALEMMA | Astronomical diagram showing the sun's position in the sky as viewed from a set point at a set hour over the course of a year, shaped like a figure 8 (8) |
| OWL | Strigiform whose name is echoed in a word for a candle-waster, dusk, a night train, a nocturnal reveller, a scholarly look, a solemn/wise person, a tawny-black giant moth's name and, onomatopoeically, |
| FENESTRA | Latin for "window", hence found in a word for the act of throwing a person out of said light or opening (8) |
| FROCK | Name, preserved in a word for "depose", for a priest's gown or monk's habit; a farm worker's traditional linen shirt; a sailor's jersey; or, a dress (5) |
| GOA | Found in a word for an aim/target, billy/nanny and also a prodding poking stick to drive and instigate, the name of India's smallest state (3) |
| BLUE | Colour of the daytime sky as a result of the process named after physicist Lord Rayleigh in which molecules in the atmosphere cause white light to "scatter" (4) |
| CALLISTO | Nymph in Greek mythology transformed into a bear and set in the sky as the constellation Ursa Major (8) |
| CHROMA | Greek "colour", thus the quality of a shade's intensity or purity of a hue, as found in a television signal (6) |
| RAINWATER | Liquid that drops from clouds in the sky; as Mallorca has no actual rivers, the island's running torrentes are made up of this stuff falling on the mountains (9) |
| IKE | 1950s presidential nickname, found in a word for "prefer, enjoy" (3) |
| METEORS | Also known as shooting stars, bodies appearing as streaks of light in the night sky as they enter Earth's atmosphere (7) |
| INTERJECT | Throw in a word for jet certain to crash after a loss (9) |
| ROMPERSTOMPER | Russell Crowe attracted attention early in his career for his portrayal of Hando, a neo-Nazi, in thi |
