✧ ҉   ASTEROID   ҉ ᠅᠅✧ ALERT ᠅  ҉ ✧

As Matt and Emma drift through space, the tether begins to fray. Can they use the debris from earlier to fill in the gaps?

Solve 9 / 12 clues to proceed.

__________          ’s train rings, reverberating railway company (4)
(Deficient spaceship took celestial voyage towards Elysium; impassioned astronaut photographed extraterrestrial) phenomenon involving the __________           (5 7)
Newsworthy traces of poisoned Hindu escaping organized Sinhalese found in __________          ’s herd (7)
The last of the __________           seceded from the Union of mongooses for excision (8)
Implausibility of (implausibility of (implausibility of (...) of the 5th and 6th __________           of Preservation) of the 5th and 6th __________           of Preservation) of the 5th and 6th __________           of Preservation (3)
Ariel has many of these Thai-Indian whales and a __________           sled without a lightbulb (12)
Original (Cinderella and husband finally) __________          , left 😳 and at a loss for words (4)
Taiwanese __________           sinkhole occasionally disturbs animals supporting lightweight infantry (half-🫡) (7)
(Natural (__________           expanded)) into meteorological instrument used in the air, not water (5)
Dinosaurs operate stars bearing (positively prime groups of __________           Kingdom inhabitants) in video game (4)
__________           (formerly), Apple, and others ending (colossally abundant job satisfaction) with owner of sky obstinacy (5)
(Lazy (adult __________           around two emergency rooms)) thwacks somnambulatory surgeon’s official garment (4)