| EYEGLASS | Setter, they say, with god woman - you need a telescope! (8) |
| PLACEBOS | Set originally by other setters, they don't really work! (8) |
| TESTERS | Cryptic setters ... they pose problems? (7) |
| SNARERS | Trap setters, they hope |
| VALUABLE | Woman you say is competent and of great worth (8) |
| COURTIER | Attendant combining heart, they say, with rank (8) |
| BRUNETTE | Make beer clear, they say, with dark head (8) |
| ESPALIER | Ease, they say, with sort of spiral latticework (8) |
| BERIBERI | Inter twice, they say, with thiamine deficiency (4-4) |
| FINALIST | Participant in last round is OK, they say, with second-rate table? |
| LADYLIKE | Refined woman you are fond of |
| SPYGLASS | Notice tumbler, say, has a telescope (8) |
| ADRASTEA | First moon discovered by means of a spacecraft (Voyager 2, 1979) rather than a telescope, in the inner Jovian system (8) |
| SPECULUM | Mirror made of polished metal for use in a telescope (8) |
| HERSCHEL | Composer whose construction of a telescope led to his discovery of Uranus in 1781 and subsequent appointment as court astronomer to George III the following year (8) |
| EYEPIECE | Watch part required for a telescope? (8) |
| NAKEDEYE | Turns up, person from the university captures Kay and I reportedly without a telescope (5,3) |
| STARGAZE | Use a telescope |
| CADENCE | Accountant's dense, they say with a lowering of the voice (7) |
| RECTANGULAR | Like a football pitch badly damaged, they say, with corners (11) |
