| CANISMINOR | Constellation containing the star Procyon, said to symbolise one of the dogs following the hunter Orion (5,5) |
| SPOTON | Presumably, one of the dogs Cruella de Vil kidnapped is called for broadcast? Precisely! (4,2) |
| NUMERAL | What may symbolise one rule man breaks |
| SWEEP | A sail of a windmill; or, one of the dog puppets on The Sooty Show (5) |
| NOBLEGAS | He symbolises one with imposing air |
| MAERA | The hound of Icarius's daughter Erigone that was turned into the dog-star Procyon. (5) |
| LILAC | The flower Syringa said to symbolise the first emotions of love; or, a colour similar to pale violet or lavender (5) |
| ORION | Named after a mythological Greek hunter, the constellation containing the stars Rigel and Betelgeuse (5) |
| CRATER | Small southern constellation containing the stars Alkes, Amansinaya and Hunahpu; the Cup (6) |
| INDIS | Containing the star known as the Persian, one of the constellations charted in Bayer's Uranometria by means of copperplate engraving (5) |
| VENATICI | Canes -; the Hunting Dogs constellation containing the "Heart of Charles" star and the Sunflower and Whirlpool galaxies (8) |
| LEO | Constellation containing the star Regulus |
| MINOR | Ursa ___ (constellation containing the star Polaris) |
| LYRA | Small northern constellation containing the star Vega (4) |
| CETUS | Large constellation containing the star Mira Ceti (5) |
| AYRA | Constellation containing the star Vega (4) |
| HORSE | Cavalry collectively; a "buck" for gymnastically vaulting over; a clothes airer; an equid such as a cob, hack, hunter or shire; or, the male of said animal, as opposed to a mare (5) |
| ARIES | Constellation containing the stars Hamal and Masartin (5) |
| DAISY | With an English species, the ox-eye, marguerite and gerbera, a wild flower used to make chains and crowns, said to symbolise innocence, purity and new beginnings (5) |
| HONESTY | Plant named for its diaphanous seedpods known as "moons" that are said to symbolise lack of deceit (7) |