| CRABNEBULA | Spanning 10 light years and located in Taurus, the shattered remnant of a star that ended its life i |
| DECATHLON | Athletics contest spanning 10 events |
| GLOSSA | A mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity. |
| POTSHERD | Drops the shattered piece of a vessel (8) |
| DECADE | A period of time spanning ten years (6) |
| ADMITS | Confesses and the shattered maid's given time inside (6) |
| SEASONARC | Story line spanning ten episodes, perhaps |
| HAERHPIN | What is one of the Romanised names of the major trade and communications city of central Manchuria, the capital of Heilongjiang, and located on the south bank of the Sungari River? (2-3-3) |
| REDGIANT | A term for a bright star in a late stage of its life that has consumed the hydrogen in its core (3,5) |
| CAPELLA | From the Latin meaning "she-goat" and located 42 light-years from Earth, a star system which is the brightest in the Charioteer constellation Auriga (7) |
| DANTE | Poet who wrote "In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost" |
| PLEIADES | Open star cluster in Taurus also called Seven Sisters because of the myth of the daughters of Atlas and Pleione (8) |
| EMPEROR | The male of this type of regal-looking penguin incubates his mate's eggs for 60 days, eating nothing and losing as much as 45% of his body weight. The chick spends the first two months of its life on |
| NOVA | A star that suddenly increases in brightness for a number of days or years (4) |
| INFERNO | Source of the line "Midway upon the road of our life I found myself within a dark wood ..." |
| SWIFT | Dialect for the common newt; a reel for winding yarn; or, a bird that spends most of its life in flight (5) |
| ALOE | A desert plant with lance-shaped leaves and a flower that appears only at the end of its life (4) |
| NBA | League that ended its 2020 season in a "bubble" |
| YRS | A trees' rings count the ___ of its life (briefly) and are climate archives as well, sharing what the tree experienced |
| BASH | "Franklin& ___" (TNT legal series that ended its run in October) |
