| GOSSAMER | Two of the four parts of Jupiter's ring are described by a word that describes something light, delicate, and insubstantial. (8) |
| MERONYM | Word that describes something by reference to one of its parts, as when calling a car 'wheels' (7) |
| LEANCORNEDBEEF | Light deli offering |
| EMPIRIC | What is a word that describes a person who makes trials or experiments (7) |
| COSMICDUST | Component of Jupiter's rings |
| ALADDIN | Depicted in illustrations by Edmund Dulac and animations by Disney, a character whose adventures are described by Scheherazade in the Arabian Nights (7) |
| ERRATA | Mistakes in writing or printing are described by which Latin term (6) |
| TEMPLAR | Word for a member of an order of knights established by Crusaders around 1119; or, a barrister of the Middle or Inner two of the four Inns of Court in London (7) |
| FLIGHT | One of the four parts of a dart (6) |
| SEASON | One of the four parts of the year |
| POLO | Traveller whose adventures along the Silk Road and at the court of Kublai Khan are described in Il Milione (The Million), or Book of the Marvels of the World (4) |
| TENOR | The four parts of the Barbershop quartet are bass, baritone, lead and ... |
| INCA | ___ Empire, a.k.a. the Realm of the Four Parts |
| HAROLDDARKE | ____'s arrangement of In the Bleak Midwinter has soprano and tenor solos for two of the four verses |
| DIGITS | For example, the four parts of 1984 - it's in quarters (6) |
| OTHELLO | Disc-flipping board game hinted at by a word ladder formed by the answers to the nine starred clues |
| HARE | David -; dramatist who wrote the play Plenty and the screenplays to The Hours, The Reader and the four-part series Roadkill (4) |
| SAXONS | Anglo -; peoples whose lives are described in a series of chronicles originally instituted by Alfred the Great (6) |
| ADJECTIVE | A type of word that describes a person or thing (9) |
| EPISTOLARY | What describes something carried on by the writing of letters, such as a long-distance romance? (10) |
