| BOGARDE | Dirk -, actor whose autobiographical volumes include A Postillion Struck by Lightning |
| TREVINO | In 1975, which golfer (Lee _) was struck by lightning while playing in a major competition? (7) |
| RETIEFGOOSEN | TOUR star struck by lightning as an amateur |
| ODDS | Around 1 in 500,000, for getting struck by lightning |
| ELECTRO | Spider-Man adversary who was struck by lightning |
| THEFLASH | Superhero who can move fast after being struck by lightning (3,5) |
| STROKE | A blow; a hit by lightning; a pull of an oar; a separatrix or virgule; the sound of a clock's hammer hitting its bell; or, the hour thus registered (6) |
| OAKS | Trees more likely to be struck by lightning than others, used as symbols of strength/endurance and f |
| ZAPPEDTOPAZ | Yellow quartz struck by lightning? |
| CRAIGRAINE | Poet whose volumes include A Martian Sends a Postcard Home and Clay, Whereabouts Unknown (5,5) |
| RIMBAUD | Arthur ?, 19th-century French poet whose volumes include A Season in Hell |
| BOBHOPE | Whose autobiographical books include "Confessions of a Hooker"? (3,4) |
| JAMESAGEE | American writer whose autobiographical novel A Death in the Family won him a posthumous Pulitzer Prize (5,4) |
| CLIVEJAMES | Australian writer and TV presenter whose autobiographical works include Falling Towards England |
| THOMPSON | Novelist whose autobiographical trilogy Lark Rise to Candleford was adapted into a television series with Julia Sawalha and Olivia Hallinan (8) |
| OUTRIDER | Postillion will get away with one on horseback (8) |
| GAVINMAXWELL | Scottish naturalist; author of 1960 autobiographical volume Ring of Bright Water (5,7) |
| TOPLESSBEECH | Tree that was hit by lightning but which remains a hot tourist attraction? |
| NITRICOXIDE | A colourless gas with the formula NO that can be generated by lightning (6,5) |
| THUNDER | Associated with Thor or Zeus, a sound caused by lightning (7) |
