| SOLARSYSTEM | The sun and orbiting bodies |
| ASTEROIDBELT | Waist wear inscribed with images of sun-orbiting bodies? |
| SATELLITES | Orbiting bodies |
| MOONS | Orbiting bodies (5) |
| PLANETS | Orbiting bodies |
| PLANETARY | Smooth attempt to go round one of orbiting bodies |
| MILKY | The dung beetle is the only known non-human animal to navigate and orient itself using the ___ way during night time operations. They are also able to use the sun and the moon for navigation |
| EYELASHES | Two sets of ___ protect the camels eyes from the sun and sand. One short, nearest the eyes and the long ones found above the eyes. |
| TIDE | Cyclical ebb and flow of the sea caused by the gravitational pull of the Sun and the Moon (4) |
| ICARUS | Who, with artificial wings waxed to him, flew too close to the sun, and the wax melted and he fell into the sea and drowned (6) |
| EARTH | The third planet from the sun and the largest of the inner planets |
| SEA | Influenced by the gravitational pull of the Sun and the Moon, this is a vast thalassic watery saline expanse where bioluminescent algae, corals, jellyfish, krill, plankton and other marine life blooms |
| PAPERS | The Globe, the Sun, and the Star |
| FARAWAYPLACES | What the travellers might be looking for from The Sun and The Star, for instance (7,6) |
| BUNSEN | Chemist who discovered an antidote to arsenic poisoning, invented a gas burner and, with Kirchoff, determined the composition of the Sun and fixed stars (6) |
| ECLIPSE | What phenomenon occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth? (7) |
| EOS | Personification of the dawn, sister of Helios (the sun) and Selene (the moon) (3) |
| RADIUS | A solar ___ is a unit of measurement equivalent to the distance between the centre of the Sun and its visible surface |
| HYPERION | One of 12 mythical Greek Titans; father of Eos the dawn, Helios the Sun and Selene the Moon (8) |
| CLEMATIS | Preferring its "head in the sun and feet in the shade", a climbing plant also aptly named traveller's joy for its prevalence along hedgerows, pathways and roadsides (8) |
