| OBSERVERCORPS | Watchers of the sky (in World War II) (8,5) |
| EPA | Climate watchers of D.C. |
| FCC | TV watchers, of a sort: Abbr. |
| KENNELS | Watchers of boxers |
| ZODIACAL | Relating to the region of the sky in which major constellations appear |
| ATLAS | Bearer of the sky, in myth |
| ROCS | Giants of the sky, in myth |
| BLAU | Color of the sky, in Germany |
| STARLIT | Descriptive of the sky in a twinkling? (7) |
| HEAVEN | Empyrean abode of angels, God and saints in Christianity; or, usually in plural, a poetic word for the sky in which the moon, planets, stars and sun appear or move (6) |
| POTATO | A root vegetable with a jacket or one of the yam-like tubers wished by Falstaff to rain from the sky in The Merry Wives of Windsor (6) |
| WXYANDZ | Lyrics said to the tune of "like a diamond in the sky" in a different kids' song |
| AURORA | Light patterns in the sky in the polar regions (6) |
| CLOUD | One floating in the sky in a puff of gunfire smoke (5) |
| CANOPUS | Second-brightest star in the sky, in the constellation Carina (7) |
| CENTAURI | Third- brightest star in the sky, in the constellation Centaurus (5,8) |
| CLOUDSTASTEMETALLIC | In the sky in '95, The Flaming Lips (6,5,8) |
| FELTLEFTOUT | "Then I like some watcher of the skies": Keats |
| ARAB | Watcher of the TV station Al-Jazeera |
| FAA | Watcher of the skies: abbr. |
