| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| TOP | Zenith | |
| APEX | Zenith | |
| CULMINATION | Zenith | |
| NADIR | Opposite zenith | |
| VERTICAL | Vertical position; zenith. | |
| ZENITHAL | Of or pertaining to the zenith. | |
| ASCENDENT | Rising toward the zenith; above the horizon. | |
| VERTEX | The zenith, or the point of the heavens directly overhead. | |
| OVERHEAD | Aloft; above; in or attached to the ceiling or roof; in the story or upon the floor above; in the zenith. | |
| MERIDIAN | A great circle of the sphere passing through the poles of the heavens and the zenith of a given place. It is crossed by the sun at midday. | |
| PERPENDICULAR | Exactly upright or vertical; pointing to the zenith; at right angles to the plane of the horizon; extending in a right line from any point toward the center of the earth. | |
| AMPHISCIANS | The inhabitants of the tropic, whose shadows in one part of the year are cast to the north, and in the other to the south, according as the sun is south or north of their zenith. | |
| HIGH | ... as a line, or surface; having altitude; lifted up; raised or extended in the direction of the zenith; lofty; tall; as, a high mountain, tower, ... | |
| SECTOR | ...of a micrometer. When it is used for measuring zenith distances of stars, it is called a zenith sector. ... | |