Possible Clues:

• Nazi touring country finds Venus
• Husband excitedly peruses the evening star
• Tall man's schooner
• Longfellow poem 'The Wreck of the ¿¿..' (8)
• Purse she turns for Longfellow's wreck
• The evening star
• The man's country's 'star' (not really)
• The Evening Star discover Nazi outside somewhere in South America
• He is country's star
• In Greek myth, the personification of the evening star