| DENEB | Most luminous star in Cygnus and one of the brightest in the night sky (5) |
| ARCTURUS | Star in the Bootes constellation, one of the brightest in the night sky |
| NOVA | Most luminous star |
| CAPELLA | "She-goat" star that's the sixth-brightest in the night sky |
| RIGEL | One of the brightest stars in the constellation of Orion (5) |
| RIGIL | ___ Kentaurus, star which along with Toliman forms a binary system, the brightest in Centaurus (5) |
| DRAIN | Emigration of the brightest (5,5) |
| BRAIN | Emigration of the brightest (5,5) |
| GENUS | It's kind of the brightest star for instance to turn up |
| ANTARES | Brightest star in the constellation Scorpius and on average the 15th-brightest in the sky; from the Greek, 'rival to Mars' (7) |
| GENII | A bunch of the brightest |
| ENCALADUS | With a coating of ice, one of the brightest, most-reflective bodies in our solar system, one of Saturn's moons (9) |
| ALPHA | Starting letter usually brightest in a constellation |
| ALPHACENTAURI | Which star, the third brightest in the sky, is actually three stars close together? (5,8) |
| LYRA | Small northern constellation whose brightest star, Vega, is the fifth-brightest in the sky (4) |
| QUASAR | One of a number of astronomical bodies thought to be the most luminous objects in the universe |
| HALEBOPP | One of the brightest comets in the 20th century (4-4) |
| SAGITTA | Third-smallest of the constellations, in the northern hemisphere between Cygnus and Aquila; the Arrow (7) |
| CATHERINE | Luminous star of Belle de Jour and The Hunger, French actress ... Deneuve |
| LACERTA | Small northern constellation on the edge of the Milky Way between Cygnus and Andromeda; the Lizard (7) |
