| ESKIMO | Warren Moon, in the early '80s |
| IDES | Day originally marked by a full moon in the early Roman calendar |
| OLIVERLUCK | QB in 20 NFL games, mostly as a back-up to Warren Moon |
| OILER | Warren Moon, once |
| MSDOS | PC platform in the early '80s |
| TONY | Montana in the early '80s |
| LAM | WERE ON IT IN THE EARLY '80s |
| UNDERFOOT | Downtrodden, like Labour in the early 80s? |
| ASHESTOASHES | BBC drama series set in the early 80s and named after a David Bowie song. (5,2,5) |
| MRMERLIN | US auto magnate, successful with Packard, Pontiac, and Chevrolet before failing with his sports car venture in the early '80s (2,6) |
| TWINSPARALUMINIUM | Now-dominant racing frame design first pioneered by Antonio Cobas in the early 80s. (4,4,9) |
| JELLYBELLY | Candy brand that hit it big in the early '80s when President Reagan expressed a fondness for it |
| ANTIC | Radomir ..... , Serbia football manager 2008-10 who had played for Luton in the early '80s (5) |
| KARPOV | Anatoly, world chess champ of the early '80s |
| TITAN | The largest moon of Saturn and the only moon in the solar system known to have clouds and a dense atmosphere. It is the only body other than Earth that is known to currently have liquid on its surface |
| EUROPA | Moon of Jupiter discovered by Galileo in 1610, the sixth-largest moon in the Solar System (6) |
| HUNTERS | ____ moon, the first full one in October after a harvest moon in the northern hemisphere (7) |
| APOLLO | Project ___, the US programme to put "a man on the moon" in the 1960s (6) |
| CALLISTO | Moon of Jupiter that is the third-largest moon in the solar system |
| ECLIPTIC | Like the moon in the earth's shadow |
