| ASTRONAUTS | Sort of star: a sun to high fliers (10) |
| LARKSPUR | Plant gives incentive to high-flier |
| SUPERNOVA | Exploding star, a sun? Prove otherwise (9) |
| 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) |
| LEO | Lion constellation from whose "mane" of stars a swarm of meteors radiates annually in November (3) |
| INTERGALACTIC | Lying between huge collections of stars - a critical gent (anag) (13) |
| LEADINGMAN | Sort of star |
| GYPSOPHILA | Rosy Veil, Summer Sparkles or Million Star, a planet with clouds of everlasting white or pink flowers, also called baby's breath (10) |
| PLANETARIA | Where to see stars a short time before song on stage (10) |
| SONJAHENIE | 20th-century Norwegian figure-skater and film star; a three-time Olympic champion (5,5) |
| SOLEMNOATH | Promise sun to them on a cruise (6,4) |
| ASSURANCES | Promises Caesar: 'Sun's to rise' (10) |
| BALLOFFIRE | The sun, to Jerry Lee Lewis? |
| STELLIFORM | Like the Sun to reveal whether soldiers stabbed sergeant-major? |
| RUBBERBALL | Red item the Cyrkle compared the sun to |
| BINARY | A sort of star at home, but unknown outside |
| EXMOOR | With a flag bearing a depiction of a stag's head and a star, a former royal hunting ground, site aro |
| ASTERISM | From "star", a constellation-like cluster or pattern of celestial etoiles; a symbol of three * characters; or, a starlike effect exhibited in a gem (8) |
| XFACTOR | A sort of star chamber, its judges deal with some harrowing notes (1,6) |
| DWARF | Sort of star performer in early Disney film |
