| NEBULA | Cloud seen with a telescope |
| STRATUS | Cloud seen by composer over centre of Austria (7) |
| CONCRETE | Solid cloud seen at first over island |
| FAIRER | More above board with fewer clouds seen (6) |
| CIRRUS | Light, feathery clouds seen at high altitudes (6) |
| LOOK | *You can do this from afar with a telescope |
| URSA | Bear viewed with a telescope |
| STARGAZER | Enthusiast with a telescope |
| GALILEO | Early astronomer known for work with a telescope |
| GALILEOGALILEI | Italian astronomer, the first to study stars with a telescope |
| HUYGENS | Dutch mathematician, astronomer, and physicist, who founded the wave theory of light, discovered the true shape of the rings of Saturn. He discovered Saturn's moon Titan with a telescope in 1655. |
| EYEGLASS | Ageless fourth of July to make out with a telescope (8) |
| TUBE | Old word for a telescope; slang word for a television; the hollow under the crest of a breaking wave; a container for oil paint, tomato puree or toothpaste; or, a pipe (4) |
| PIER | Type of jetty as a landing stage, breakwater, or promenade; support for a telescope; or, a buttress (4) |
| NAUGHTYLIST | Boy in Minot who wants a new bike but was caught shoplifting, girl in Tucson who wants a telescope but has stayed out past curfew a few times, etc. |
| LENS | Part of a telescope or a microscope |
| ORION | Hunter seen through a telescope |
| EXTENDABLE | Like a telescope or a radio antenna |
| URANUS | First planet discovered with the aid of a telescope |
| TELESPECTROSCOPE | Consisting of a telescope and a spectroscope, what is used to analyse the spectra of astronomical bo |
