| GROUNDWORK | Toil beneath the earth to make the foundation (10) |
| RHEOSTAT | Earths to make the lights dimmer (8) |
| YEAR | Time taken by the earth to make one revolution around the sun |
| DIRTCHEAP | Doesn't cost the earth to make it parched (4,5) |
| UNDERWORLD | Traditional word for the land of the dead that lies beneath the earth, or a term denoting criminal gangs and the people involved in them |
| JEANPICARD | 17th-century French astronomer who measured the size of the Earth to a reasonable degree of accuracy (4,6) |
| ASTRONOMICALUNIT | Distance equal to the mean distance from the centre of the earth to the centre of the sun (12,4) |
| HADES | (myth) home of the dead beneath the earth |
| POLARICECAPS | What one has to go to the ends of the Earth to find |
| NETHER | Point to an anaesthetic lying beneath the earth's surface |
| GROUNDWATER | Liquid present beneath the Earth's surface (10) |
| GAIA | Earth, to make great again, improve atmosphere for starters (4) |
| HEREAFTER | Free Earth to make heaven (9) |
| DAY | Time for Earth to make a complete rotation |
| TERRAPIN | Reptile stuck leg beneath the earth (8) |
| LANDOR | Nineteenth-century writer of "Gold Beneath the Earth" (6) |
| ICECAP | You'll have to go to the ends of the earth to find this top hat (3,3) |
| MARS | This planet was given the name of the Roman god of war. In Henry VI, Part 1 (act 1, scene 2), Charles, Dauphin of France says, "___ his moving, even as in the heavens / So in the earth, to this day is |
| UCLAN | Students with the motto From the Earth to the Sun informally |
| PLUTON | Igneous rock far beneath the earth's surface |
