| NEAREST | Like Proxima Centauri, of all stars but the sun |
| CLOSEST | Proxima Centauri, of all stars |
| PLUTO | Not the dog star, but the dog planet! (5) |
| VENT | Complain about going an entire month between the end of "Drag Race" season 16 and the beginning of "All-Stars" season 9, say |
| SOLO | All alone! Nothing but the sun and its ring (4) |
| ICARUS | In legend, who used wings made of wax and feathers, but the sun melted them, and he perished (6) |
| DWARFSTAR | Astronomical body such as the red Proxima Centauri or the white Sirius B (5,4) |
| REDDWARF | Smallest, coolest, most-common type of star in the Milky Way, low-mass Proxima Centauri, for example (3,5) |
| STAR | Astronomical object such as our sun or Proxima Centauri (4) |
| RED | Small cool star such as Proxima Centauri |
| DWARF | Small cool star such as Proxima Centauri (3,5) |
| MSTAR | Antares or Proxima Centauri |
| BADMOVIE | What may have stars but gets no stars |
| VERNON | - Kay, presenter of All Star Family Fortunes (6) |
| ONCE | Second word of "All Star" |
| TEN | Number of All- Star selections for Tamika Catchings |
| SOMEBODY | Opening word of "All Star" |
| NOT | Featured star's "But - For Me" |
| EVA | Ms Green, the astronaut and mother in Alice Winocour's Proxima (3) |
| BYFAR | "You may be my lucky star / But I'm the luckiest ___" (Madonna lyric): 2 wds. |
