| ECLIPTIC | Like the moon in the earth's shadow |
| APOLLO | Project ___, the US programme to put "a man on the moon" in the 1960s (6) |
| CRESCENT | Shaped like the moon in its first quarter |
| REARLIT | Like the moon in a solar eclipse |
| ORION | New Nasa crew vehicle, currently expected to land on the moon in the 2025 Artemis III mission |
| SILVERY | Like the moon in 1909 song |
| LUNAR | The moon takes on an ominous red shade when it passes through the Earth's shadow in a total ... ecli |
| LUNARECLIPSE | An eclipse where the moon passes partially through the umbra of the earth's shadow (5,7) |
| INGRESS | Arrival of the Moon into Earth's shadow in an eclipse; or, the Sun's entrance into a constellation or part of the sky (7) |
| TITAN | The largest moon of Saturn and the only moon in the solar system known to have clouds and a dense atmosphere. It is the only body other than Earth that is known to currently have liquid on its surface |
| EUROPA | Moon of Jupiter discovered by Galileo in 1610, the sixth-largest moon in the Solar System (6) |
| HUNTERS | ____ moon, the first full one in October after a harvest moon in the northern hemisphere (7) |
| ORBIT | Travel in circles like the Moon around the Earth |
| CALLISTO | Moon of Jupiter that is the third-largest moon in the solar system |
| LODESTAR | Song by #17-Across that goes "You sang to the moon / In the great black night..." |
| ECLIPSED | Outshone, like the Moon and the Sun (8) |
| WANE | Wax and ___ (grow and shrink in size, like the moon) |
| GANYMEDE | Satellite of Jupiter that is the largest moon in the Solar System (8) |
| TRITON | Largest moon in the solar system with a retrograde orbit |
| SMOKY | Somewhat obscure half moon in the sky |
