| ECLAT | From the French meaning "burst" or "shine", a word for peacockery or splendour (5) |
| GRANDEUR | Magnificence or splendour (8) |
| BLUSH | From "burn, light a fire, shine", a reddening of the face in response to discomfiture; a rosy glow; pale rose wine; a pinkish tinge; or, a group of boys, peaches or redbreasts (5) |
| LIGHT | Love Shine A _, Katrina And The Waves song which won the 1997 Eurovision Song Contest (5) |
| STAVE | Burst or force (a hole) into something (5) |
| FORTH | Word after burst or spring |
| BUSTS | Bursts or breaks, informally (5) |
| FLASH | Shine a Light, following sweep (5) |
| GLEAM | Shine a light on novice in awful game (5) |
| DASH | A bribe; a hyphen; a sprint; a whack; a touch of soda or other admixture; or, general panache and peacockery (4) |
| WEATHER | Take a hat - we're prepared for the rain or shine perhaps (7) |
| RAIN | Come ____ or shine, phrase meaning 'whatever the weather or circumstances' (4) |
| ELO | Band with the 1979 hit Shine a Little Love for short |
| RAG | Old shirt, torn up and recycled to shine a car or a shoe |
| ALLWEATHER | A resistant gun for everybody, come rain or shine (3-7) |
| ILLUMINATE | Shine a light on suffering by spicy type losing the head and put away (10) |
| KATRINA | ___ and the Waves, Britain's most recent Eurovision winner with "Love Shine a Light" in 1997 (7) |
| RUPI | I have burst or interrupted, fregi |
| RUPTURE | Burst or break suddenly (7) |
| BUST | Burst or break (4) |
