Word "PLANET" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
(astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in order of their proximity to the sun; viewed from the constellation Hercules, all the planets rotate around the sun in a counterclockwise direction
Synonyms:
major planet

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a person who follows or serves another
Synonyms:
satellite

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
any celestial body (other than comets or satellites) that revolves around a star

Crossword Clues for PLANET

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Celestial body (6) Mirror Quick 30 Sep 2025
Surface temperature on Mars, say (6) Mirror Cryptic 30 Sep 2025
Solar orbiter Newsday 21 Sep 2025
Celestial body orbiting a star The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 15 Sep 2025
What is Mars? (6)
Ork or Mars, but not the moon (6)
Surface temperature on Mars, say (6) Mirror Cryptic 06 Jul 2025
Celestial body (6) Mirror Quick 06 Jul 2025
Celestial body The Times Concise 05 Jul 2025
"Dawn of the ___ of the Apes"
Surface temperature on Mars, say (6) Mirror Cryptic 22 Jun 2025
Celestial body (6) Mirror Quick 22 Jun 2025
Way to check patient's temperature with Mercury, say (6)
Body that revolves around the Sun (6)
Map extra-terrestrial used to find Earth, for example (6)
Sci-fi film franchise ___ of the Apes (6)
Solar system member? (6) The Guardian Quick 10 May 2025
Public transport goes around alley and goes around a star (6)
Celestial body such as Neptune
Restaurant chain ___ Hollywood
Uranus, for example The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 04 May 2025
Body such as earth (6)
Surface temperature on Mars, say Mirror Cryptic 19 Apr 2025
Celestial body Mirror Quick 19 Apr 2025
Surface temperature on Mercury, say (6)
Surface temperature on Mars, say Mirror Cryptic 29 Mar 2025
Celestial body Mirror Quick 29 Mar 2025
Mars or Venus, for example (6)
You're on one right now
___ of the Apes, sci-fi film (6) Puzzler 20 Mar 2025
Plot to film mercury, for example (6)
Part of the solar system revealed by Pat and Len
"Rise of the ___ of the Apes"; movie for James Franco
Big orbiter New York Times 14 Mar 2025
Mercury or Mars Thomas Joseph 12 Mar 2025
Such as earth, something that can take off at end of Lent (6)
Heavenly body The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 10 Mar 2025
Design it to sound like Mars or Venus (6)
Alien follows blueprint for Earth, say (6)
Mercury, for one Thomas Joseph 27 Feb 2025
Jupiter, e.g. The Sun Two Speed 25 Feb 2025
Way to load part-emptied revolver? The Sun Two Speed 25 Feb 2025
Surface temperature on Mars, perhaps (6)
Mercury or Mars Wall Street Journal 18 Feb 2025
Body temperature beneath surface The Times Sunday Cryptic 16 Feb 2025
A scheme to meet an alien on another world
Jupiter or Mars Commuter 08 Feb 2025
Venus, but not Serena New York Times 28 Jan 2025
Surface temperature on Venus, say (6)
Aircraft at the end of flight in the sky
Point about the way to achieve a heavenly body (6)
Jupiter or Mars, eg
Mars or Mercury LA Times Daily 17 Dec 2024
Celestial body Mirror Quick 10 Dec 2024
Surface temperature on Mars, say Mirror Cryptic 10 Dec 2024
One of eight orbs (Sorry, Pluto!)
Celestial body Mirror Quick 07 Dec 2024
Surface temperature on Mars, say Mirror Cryptic 07 Dec 2024
He left out Elephant World (6)
Set includes finale from Freddie Mercury for example (6) The Guardian Cryptic 04 Dec 2024
Earth or Mars (6)
Maybe earth tremor beginning near tree (6)
Mercury or Mars, eg The Times Concise 20 Nov 2024
Mercury, say, showing temperature on flat surface (6)
It goes round as part of the system
"Kingdom of the - of the Apes"
Jupiter, e.g. The Sun Two Speed 27 Oct 2024
Body in tree found by trappers' leader The Sun Two Speed 27 Oct 2024
Heavenly body dishing up polenta, nothing less (6) Puzzler Cryptic 16 Oct 2024
Celestial body Mirror Quick 13 Oct 2024
Surface temperature on Mars, say Mirror Cryptic 13 Oct 2024
See 7 Across Mirror Quiz 10 Oct 2024
Prepare for an extraterrestrial from Mars, say (6)
___ Hollywood (themed restaurant chain) Universal 30 Sep 2024
Arrakis or Naboo USA Today 30 Sep 2024
World's way in training (6)
Mars or Uranus, eg (6)
Daily ____, fictional newspaper on which superhero Clark Kent worked (6)
Venus, for example (6)
E.g. Mars or Jupiter
What each word in "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Noodles" is a stand-in for New York Times Mini 14 Sep 2024
Fighter, perhaps with bit of tan and heavenly body (6)
Place firmly in position around Earth and Mercury perhaps (6)
21 Across orbiter The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 05 Sep 2024
Heavenly flight to the capital of Turkey
'___ Earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do' (6)
Revolver English brought into factory The Times Quick Cryptic 16 Aug 2024
Maybe Venus flytrap's centre put on flat surface The Times Cryptic 07 Aug 2024
Design extraterrestrial world The Times Quick Cryptic 25 Jul 2024
Surface temperature on Mars, say Mirror Cryptic 07 Jul 2024
Celestial body Mirror Quick 07 Jul 2024
Apes have one of their own (6)
Jupiter or Uranus Family Time 01 Jul 2024
Large, round object in space that moves around a star (6)
___ of the Apes, film (6)
Mercury, perhaps, of note in the factory (6)
Mars or Uranus, say
Venus or Mars Newsday 26 Jun 2024
Mars or Saturn, e.g.
Physical training holds the way for a heavenly body! (6)
Surface temperature on Mars, for example Mirror Cryptic 09 Jun 2024
Celestial object Mirror Quick 09 Jun 2024
Jupiter or Earth, eg (6)
Egghead in a factory producing earth, for example (6)
Mercury, but not zinc LA Times Daily 19 May 2024
Earth or Neptune, e.g.
Earth, for example, and last bit of manure, absorbed by plant (6)
Craft heading to Third World (6) The Telegraph Toughie 14 May 2024
For example, Jupiter's plot to go ahead of alien (6)
Aircraft at the end of a flight in the sky (6)
Surface temperature of Mars, say Mirror Cryptic 11 May 2024
Celestial body Mirror Quick 11 May 2024
See 3 Across Mirror Quiz 08 May 2024
Physical training holds the way to reveal a heavenly body! (6)
Mars or Venus, eg (6)
What Jupiter is Family Time 21 Apr 2024
It plays a starring role, but doesn't shine (6)
Neptune, say (6)
Celestial body Mirror Quick 19 Mar 2024
Surface temperature on Mars, say Mirror Cryptic 19 Mar 2024
Earth or Venus
Aircraft at the end of the flight in the sky (6)
Plot by alien to discover what we live on
Neptune or Uranus, eg (6)
Plant around second best satellite of the Sun
Celestial body Mirror Quick 18 Feb 2024
Surface temperature on Mars, say Mirror Cryptic 18 Feb 2024
Mercury or Mars Commuter 03 Feb 2024
Jukebox musical, Return To The Forbidden _ (6)
Saturn or Neptune, e.g. USA Today 24 Jan 2024
Flying machine ultimately not from Mars perhaps (6)
The Green ___, 2022 David Attenborough series (6)
Flier ending on distant world
Clark Kent's Daily ___ (6)
"Kingdom of the ___ of the Apes," sci-fi film about a primate species that you can watch on the big screen in 2024
Venus or Mercury, eg Mirror Tea Time 29 Dec 2023
Flier ending on distant world (6)
Gallifrey is the home one of the Time Lords in Doctor Who (6)
Surface temperature on Mars, say Mirror Cryptic 28 Nov 2023
Celestial body Mirror Quick 28 Nov 2023
Scheme for the alien to go to Venus or Mars (6)
"Songs for a Dying ___," 1992 solo album by Joe Walsh
Jupiter, e.g. The Telegraph Quick 11 Nov 2023
Mercury or Mars USA Today 11 Aug 2023
World to which Zoopla network contributes all its needs The Telegraph Toughie 22 Jun 2023
Earth, Mars, or Saturn Newsday 29 May 2023
Heavenly body The Times Concise 10 May 2023
Venus, for one USA Today 11 Apr 2023
See 2 The Guardian Cryptic 24 Feb 2023
Mars or Mercury Thomas Joseph 15 Feb 2023
Heavenly body The Telegraph Quick 20 Dec 2022
Mars, for one Thomas Joseph 19 Dec 2022
Earth maybe from track used in exercise The Telegraph Cryptic 25 Nov 2022
A world of energy in factory? The Times Cryptic 07 Nov 2022
Mars, for one Eugene Sheffer 20 Oct 2022
Found squeezing European's heavenly body The Telegraph Cryptic 04 Oct 2022
Vulcan, e.g Wall Street Journal 29 Sep 2022
Mars or Mercury Newsday 20 Sep 2022
Daily in Metropolis Wall Street Journal 03 Sep 2022
Neptune or Saturn, e.g.
Mars or Venus USA Today 01 Jul 2022
Member of a noted octet LA Times Daily 09 Apr 2022
Member of a noted octet The Washington Post 09 Apr 2022
Vulcan, for one Wall Street Journal 16 Mar 2022
Celestial, orbiting body Irish Times Simplex 09 Mar 2022
Perhaps Mercury‘s scheme, out of this world?
Earth's one source of electricity consumed by factory The Guardian Cryptic 15 Feb 2022
Earth's one source of electricity consumed by factory
Hollywood precursor? New York Times 05 Feb 2022
Earth is one USA Today 19 Dec 2021
One in a large octet LA Times Daily 16 Dec 2021
Mercury or Mars Universal 26 Nov 2021
Heavenly body seen in gym across narrow road The Times Cryptic 27 Oct 2021
Flying vehicle on flight, finally, for Mars? The Times Cryptic 07 Oct 2021
Figure mountain climbing, one occupying space
"___ Money," American podcast on economy hosted by Robert Smith
Exercise round track for a heavenly body!
Celestial body Irish Times Simplex 10 Aug 2021
Mars or Uranus Irish Times Simplex 22 May 2021
Spy carrying English revolver perhaps
Visitor follows map showing our home, perhaps
Alien supporting proposal for Mars, maybe The Telegraph Cryptic 20 Apr 2021
Scheme for alien on Earth, say
Earth perhaps flat? Thinking initially
Saturn, e.g The Sun Two Speed 20 Feb 2021
Factory stocking English revolver? The Sun Two Speed 20 Feb 2021
Saturn, for one Eugene Sheffer 20 Jan 2021
Celestial body Irish Times Simplex 20 Jan 2021
Tython from "Star Wars," e.g.
World New York Times 23 Dec 2020
Mars or Neptune, e.g.
Jupiter, e.g USA Today 11 Dec 2020
. Map possible Martian's origin
Celestial body, from a Greek word meaning “wanderer” The Times Specialist Sunday 15 Nov 2020
Mars, for one Thomas Joseph 15 Oct 2020
It goes around in circles New York Times 10 Oct 2020
Factory containing last piece of satellite for Mars, perhaps
Earth perhaps ending in pot under tree
5-Down, for example Wall Street Journal 25 Aug 2020
Celestial body The Times Concise 14 Aug 2020
Temperature on flat earth? The Telegraph Cryptic 09 Jul 2020
Body temperature on surface
Alien after map for Mars, say?
Engineer works outside with mercury Irish Times Crosaire 27 May 2020
Solar system circler Newsday 22 Apr 2020
Plot alien object in orbit
Equipment orbiting Earth or Venus?
"Escape from ___ Earth," 2013 animated comedy-adventure sci-fi film directed by Cal Brunker that features the voice of Jessica Alba
Gas giant, for one The Washington Post Sunday 01 Mar 2020
Revolutionary body The Washington Post Sunday 09 Feb 2020
World‘s energy consumed by factory
Earth, e.g Canadiana 20 Jan 2020
Scheme with alien world
Factory stocking English revolver?
Pluto, until 2006 USA Today 07 Oct 2019
…favoured involving network to supply orbiter
World works to conserve energy The Telegraph Toughie 12 Jul 2019
Celestial body The Telegraph Quick 27 Jun 2019
Mercury, for one Thomas Joseph 24 Jun 2019
Orbiting heavenly body Irish Times Simplex 02 May 2019
Pluto, before its downgrade USA Today 04 Jan 2019
Pluto, until 2006
Pluto, before its downgrade
Orbiting body in the heavens Irish Times Simplex 19 Dec 2018
Mercury perhaps showing level temperature
Mercury, say, element at outset brought into factory
Space-traveller's aircraft on time The Telegraph Cryptic 17 Nov 2018
Solar satellite Newsday 09 Nov 2018
Revolver? The Washington Post 27 Oct 2018
Revolver? LA Times Daily 27 Oct 2018
Mars, for one LA Times Daily 14 Oct 2018
Mars, for one The Washington Post 14 Oct 2018
Venus, but not Serena New York Times 07 Oct 2018
Certain octet member The Washington Post 14 Sep 2018
Certain octet member LA Times Daily 14 Sep 2018
Mars or Venus, for e.g.
Word from the Greek for ''wanderer'' Newsday 28 Jul 2018
Energy content of vegetation on which we live
Member of a noted octet The Washington Post 11 Mar 2018
Member of a noted octet LA Times Daily 11 Mar 2018
Mercury or Mars New York Times 26 Feb 2018
Earth, say, in tree found by tribe's leader
Proposition movie star?
Mercury or Mars
Venus, but not Serena
Mars, for one
Certain octet member
Revolver?
Mercury, e.g LA Times Daily 02 Dec 2017
Mercury, e.g The Washington Post 02 Dec 2017
Earth, say, where flower perhaps stores energy
Mercury, for instance, showing temperature with level The Telegraph Cryptic 01 Oct 2017
Many a "Star Trek" stopover USA Today 19 Sep 2017
Venus or Mars Newsday 18 Sep 2017
What a probe may observe The Washington Post Sunday 03 Sep 2017
Aim SF film — to be set here?
Pluto, before a 2006 downgrade USA Today 10 Aug 2017
Krypton or Vulcan, in sci-fi USA Today 28 Mar 2017
Way to load part-emptied revolver? The Times Cryptic 21 Mar 2017
Way to load part-emptied revolver?
World's energy consumed by factory
Earth perhaps flat — first of theories The Times Cryptic 27 Feb 2017
Alien after map to find Earth, perhaps?
Craft needs a little time to become orbiter The Times Cryptic 13 Feb 2017
Mars or Mercury Thomas Joseph 09 Jan 2017
Krypton or Vulcan, in sci-fi
Mercury, e.g.
Pluto, before a 2006 downgrade
Many a "Star Trek" stopover
Vulcan, for one Wall Street Journal 21 Oct 2016
15-Across, once Universal 13 Sep 2016
Mercury, perhaps — first of elements used in factory The Times Cryptic 17 Aug 2016
Star circler Wall Street Journal 08 Aug 2016
Place a trap in the earth? The Telegraph Toughie 28 Jul 2016
Earth, say The Washington Post 14 Jul 2016
Mercury or Mars Wall Street Journal 27 Jun 2016
Smooth bar – Mars perhaps
Part of seven-piece suite's in flat on time The Telegraph Cryptic 05 Jun 2016
Solar orbiter Newsday 03 Jun 2016
Jett's world
Brontitall or Magrathea, in 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' Wall Street Journal 29 Apr 2016
A high mountain's climbed to gain a body
Vulcan, e.g Wall Street Journal 07 Jan 2016
Vulcan, e.g.
15-Across, once
Saturn or Mars, eg The Sun Two Speed 20 Dec 2015
Aircraft on time for Jupiter, perhaps The Sun Two Speed 20 Dec 2015
Alien in film follows map -- to find this? The Telegraph Cryptic 20 Nov 2015
Pluto, once Eugene Sheffer 05 Sep 2015
Neptune, for example The Guardian Quick 15 Aug 2015
Celestial body revolving round the sun The Telegraph General Knowledge 02 Aug 2015
Pluto declassified as one representation film
Mercury perhaps gives surface temperature
Venus, e.g LA Times Daily 02 Jun 2015
Krypton, e.g Universal 11 Mar 2015
Ork, for one USA Today 12 Feb 2015
Earth perhaps beginning to tremble under tree The Telegraph Cryptic 30 Jan 2015
Krypton, e.g.
Ork, for one
Space revolver
Venus, e.g.
Energy input to something growing in the earth?
Jupiter, but not Zeus
Solar satellite
Solar orbiter
Venus or Mars
Mercury or Saturn
Pluto, for a time
Mars or Saturn, e.g.
It goes around annually
Orrery orb
Solar-heated orbiter
Heavenly orb
___ Hollywood
Revolutionary figure?
Celestial body
Pluto, for a time
Supposedly influential body putting energy into factory
Mercury, e.g.
Quest of the astronomer Percival Lowell
Uranus, e.g.
Venus, e.g.
Sun looper
Mercury, for one
See 31-Across
Mercury, e.g.
Mars or Jupiter
Earth, for one
Mars or Venus
Solar-system component
Krypton or Ork
Krypton, in science fiction
It has solar heating
Rock around a star
Solar system spheroid
Krypton, for one
Mercury, e.g.
One of these can be found reading counterclockwise somewhere in each concentric ring
Astronomer's sighting
Pluto, formerly
Krypton or Vulcan
Source of energy, in astrology
Pluto, once
It has solar heating
Earth, for one
Revolver?
Evening star, e.g.
Heavenly body
Sun circler
Orrery unit
See 25-Across
Evening star, e.g.
Mars, e.g.
Saturn, but not Taurus
Orrery orb
Heavenly body
Orrery representation
Starship stop
Mercury or Saturn, e.g.
Space occupier
It goes around annually
Subject of Kepler's laws
Probe's target
Mercury, for one
Kent's daily
Mork's Ork, e.g.
Krypton or Vulcan
Mork's Ork, e.g.
Mercury, for one
Revolver?
Orrery part
Solar system spheroid
Mercury, e.g.
One of nine so far
Krypton, e.g.
Krypton, in science fiction
Flying vehicle on flight, finally, for Mars?
Star circler
Ork, for one
_____ Hollywood
Pluto, for example
Earth, for one
Mercury or Mars
Krypton or Ork
Clark Kent's paper, with "The"
Pluto e.g.
Sun orbiter
Solar-heated orbiter
"The Daily ___" (Lois Lane's employer)
Earth, for example
49 Across orbiter
Earth
Mercury, e.g.
Item in this puzzle's theme
Venus, for one
Morning star, e.g.
Pluto, e.g.
Celestial revolver
A celestial body
Galaxy member
What 9 Across is
One of nine revolvers
"___ of the Apes," 1968 film
Daily ___ (Clark Kent's paper)
Simian domain in a 1968 film
Clark Kent's newspaper
Solar satellite
Orrery item
Kent's Daily ___
Neptune is one
Palomar sighting
Mars, e.g.
One of nine major bodies
Venus is one
Earth, e.g.
"There's some ill ___ reigns": Shakespeare
Pluto or Venus
What Herschell discovered in 1781.
Body of the solar system.
One of nine.
Jupiter is the largest.
Earth
Jupiter.
Pluto.
Earth.
Pluto, for one.
Mars.
Earth, for instance.
Neptune or Pluto.
Neptune is one.
The Earth, for example.
Celestial body.
Solar system unit.
Venus, for instance.
Heavenly body.
Pluto or Mars.
Mars, for instance.
The earth.
The Earth.
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