| ROTATION | The spinning motion of a planet about an internal axis (8) |
| EYE | A giant squid has the largest one on the planet, about the size of a human head |
| EARTH | Planet about 93 million miles from the Sun |
| VELOCITY | A measure of the rate of motion of a body expressed as the rate of change of its position in a particular direction with time |
| MOMENTUM | In physics, the quantity of motion of a moving body, equal to the product of the mass and the velocity (8) |
| WHIPLASH | A flexible end of a switch or riding crop; or, a jerk or jolt to the neck that occurs suddenly, like the cracking motion of a scourge (8) |
| FREEFALL | Motion of a body, such as a spacecraft, under the force of gravity only; part of a parachute jump before the canopy deploys; or, any fast uncontrolled descent, dip or drop (4,4) |
| GYRATION | The spinning of a toy ring perhaps (8) |
| CROMPTON | Samuel ___, English inventor of the spinning mule (8) |
| DOWNBEAT | Relaxed motion of a conductor |
| TEACLOTH | A fool shut in the spinning drier (3,5) |
| GASGIANT | Description of a planet such as Jupiter or Saturn (3,5) |
| SAMUEL | Forename of either the inventor of the spinning mule, a notable English diarist, the leader of the Shoreham Ancients or a fictional snuff-taking rat from whom Tom Kitten escapes (6) |
| PRECESSION | Motion of a spinning body in which it wobbles so that the axis of rotation sweeps out a cone |
| SMITTEN | Cricket: a ball that is bowled with a spinning motion (6) |
| FORCE | At which causes a change in the motion of a body (5) |
| ALBEDO | Word derived from the Latin meaning "whiteness", for a measure of reflectivity of an object such as that of a planet or the Moon (6) |
| ORBIT | The trajectory of a planet around a star or a satellite around a planet |
| SWIRL | Turn in a twisting or spinning motion; eddy (5) |
| SEASICKNESS | Also known as mal-de-mer, nausea or queasiness caused by the motion of a boat or ship on the waves (11) |
