| SEESTARS | Suffer from a heavy blow, as astronomers do (3,5) |
| BELTED | Dealt a heavy blow, as an earl may be |
| LOOKEDUP | Used reference books, as astronomers did (6,2) |
| WALLOP | Dividing portion half-open from a heavy blow |
| CONCUSSION | Violent shock from a heavy blow (10) |
| PUNCHDRUNK | Dazed from a heavy blow |
| BANKRUPT | He suffers from a lack of balance (8) |
| AGONISES | Suffers from a case of gas, stifling horrible noise (8) |
| AMNESIAC | One who suffers from a loss of memory (8) |
| BLESSYOU | React to one preparing to blow, as bishop may do? |
| DETAILED | Blow-by-blow, as boxers commonly are (8) |
| WHITELIE | We are prone to accept blow as pardonable offence |
| UPPERCUT | Blow as meal without starter cancelled |
| KNOCKOUT | An elimination tournament; or, a word for a heavy blow in boxing, often abbreviated to two letters (8) |
| THESTORM | Survives a heavy blow (8,3,5) |
| WEATHERS | Survives a heavy blow (8,3,5) |
| ORE | It may be from a heavy metal band |
| SLAMMED | Suffering from a heavy caseload |
| ANAGRAM | From Greek for "back, anew" and "letter", a word or phrase formed by rearranging those of another, such as astronomer/moon starer, listen/silent or the Morse code/here come dots (7) |
| BOUNCE | Imitative word for a heavy blow or thump originally, later a jump, leap or spring; the recoil of an object, such as a ball; bluster, confidence or swagger; a boom; a lie; vitality or zip; or, body and |
