| BRITISHEMPIRE | Former global entity on which the Sun was said never to set (7,6) |
| YARDARM | In sailing ship days, drinking alcohol was permitted when the sun was over the what? (7) |
| UNSAID | Implied the sun was out: a fine day (6) |
| HOSP | Red or blue entity, on some maps |
| NYPD | "Blue" entity, on an old TV show |
| BRITISH | At its greatest extent, early in the 20th century, this empire comprised nearly a quarter of the planet. It was known as an empire on which the sun never set. (7) |
| CAPRICORN | Italian island grain on which the sun turns! (9) |
| HUMANCONFLICT | Paying tribute to Battle of Britain pilots on August 20, Winston Churchill said: "Never in the field of ... was so much owed by so many to so few" (5,8) |
| AMELIAEARHART | She said, "Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done" |
| SUCCUMB | Martin Luther King Jr often said, 'Never ... to the temptation of bitterness' |
| TROPIC | Torrid zone / either of the two small circles of the celestial sphere on each side of and parallel to the equator which the sun reaches at its greatest declination north or south |
| ANIMALS | House of the Rising Sun was the only UK No 1 hit by the ____ |
| SWAN | Singer who is said never to give an encore (4) |
| FIELD | Paying tribute to Battle of Britain pilots on August 20, Winston Churchill said: "Never in the ... of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few" |
| LEOPARD | Animal said never to change its spots |
| CUMIN | Plant said never to come out (5) |
| CONWAY | New Hampshire town whose Daily Sun was the first newspaper to publish sudoku in English |
| NOON | The point at which the sun crosses the local meridian; midday (4) |
| SUBALTERN | Albert Sun was a lowly member of the colony... (9) |
| WEST | Direction in which the sun sets; or, the novelist born Cicin Isabel Fairfield whose Aubrey Trilogy comprises The Fountain Overflows. This Real Night and Cousin Rosamund (4) |
