| RADARANTENNA | Tracking device, as found on the telescopes at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire |
| LOVELL | Bernard -; physicist who led the team that built the 250 ft radio telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory in the 1950s (6) |
| DARNHALL | Small village south-west of Winsford; it was an ancient hunting ground for the Norman earls of Chester; now it is home to one of the telescopes in the Jodrell Bank network (8) |
| LASSELL | Grand amateur astronomer whose fortune accrued as a beer brewer financed the telescopes which facilitated his discovery of Neptune's moon Triton (7) |
| RADIOTELESCOPE | Unstable isotope cleared for detector at Jodrell Bank (5,9) |
| BERNARDLOVELL | English astronomer who founded the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire in 1945 (7,6) |
| OPENEYE | Symbol of watchfulness, as found on the Great Seal |
| BLURB | A promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books) (5) |
| OILSLICK | As found on the sea because it's accidentally come out of a container (3,5) |
| NUDITY | The deshabille state of being in the altogether or condition of one's birthday suit, as found on non-textile beaches or in life classes (6) |
| SEASHELL | As found on the beach (8) |
| GOOSTREY | An ancient farming village off Junction 18 of the M6, near Jodrell Bank Observatory; the parish contains the hamlet of Blackden (8) |
| BELLE | Film Jodrell Bank every evening unless taking the Four Tops playing (5,2,4) |
| ASTRONOMY | Galileo was one of the first to use the telescope in this science of the stars |
| REACTOR | Nuclear device as at Sellafield where railway first established in 1860 (7) |
| HICJACET | "Here lies", in Latin, as found on a gravestone (3,5) |
| TEETH | As found on a saw or in a mouth (5) |
| OBSERVATORY | Jodrell Bank, say, excited boy over star (11) |
| TYCHO | Danish astronomer (1546-1601) who made the most accurate measurements of the solar system prior to the invention of the telescope (5) |
| BRAHE | Danish astronomer (1546-1601) who made the most accurate measurements of the solar system prior to the invention of the telescope (5) |
