| CENTREOFGRAVITY | The central point in an object at which its mass is evenly balanced (6,2,7) |
| INERTIA | Subject of the first law of motion (An object at rest...) (7) |
| EQUAL | Match is evenly balanced (5) |
| FIFTY | This again is evenly balanced (5) |
| ATOM | Its mass is mostly from its nucleus |
| NEARTHING | A close shave from an object at hand? (4,5) |
| SUN | Its mass is 333,000 times that of Earth |
| INTAGLIO | Etched design in an object such as a gemstone; from Italian, 'to engrave' (8) |
| HOLE | Empty space in an object (4) |
| SPECTRE | Visible spirit in an object of terror |
| CENTEROFGRAVITY | Point around which weight is evenly distributed |
| GREENCLOTH | Lord steward's department of the Royal household named after the baize napery covering the table at which its committee members sat; or, informally, a gaming-table (10) |
| MIDTERM | Terminal socket in dimmerswitch is central point in office (7) |
| SIGHTUNSEEN | Without having looked at the object at issue, especially in terms of an item for sale (5,6) |
| CARAMEL | Black or brown substance produced by slowly heating sugar to the point at which its molecules break down and reform (7) |
| INDICATES | Points out central point in the far-flung distance (9) |
| CHOCOLATE | Traced to the Mayans and Aztecs, a cacao-derived food consumed as a drink by 17th-century European aristocrats until its mass production by Fry and later Cadbury in the 1800s (9) |
| HELIACAL | The ascension of a celestial object at the same time as the sun (8,6) |
| RISING | The ascension of a celestial object at the same time as the sun (8,6) |
| APHELION | Extreme point in an orbit whose name in question declares it "away from" its life-giving star, the Sun (8) |
