ganash?

You're definitely closer purely in terms of letters.

my last go....galaxy?

That's it.

 

 

Immersed in pleasure, embracing the loose, good heavens! so much dust! (6)

 

WORDPLAY

immersed in pleasure [charade] = gay

embracing [indicator:container/insertion]

loose [charade] = lax

... GAY with lax inserted = GAlaxY

DEFINITION

good heavens! so much dust! = galaxy (part of the heavens, much of which is interstellar dust)

 

Over to you.

quickie:

 

bird ballad for the last time (8)

Swansong 

over to you, nfs

Blacken the rocks, the creeps.

(12 letters)

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