| INDRA | Hindu god of the storms, thunder and lightning (5) |
| STORM | General word for an atmospheric disturbance such as a blizzard, hurricane, gale of force 10 on the Beaufort scale or cloudburst with thunder and lightning (5) |
| CUPID | Santa reindeer, listed after Comet and before the thunder-and lightning pair |
| WHITE | Author of novels including The Tree of Man, The Eye of the Storm and A Fringe of Leaves (5) |
| ARENA | Place for Thunder and Lightning |
| TEAMS | Thunder and Lightning, e.g. |
| ENTER | "Thunder and lightning. ___ three Witches" (stage direction that opens "Macbeth") |
| GALES | Talk about, in French, the storms (5) |
| LULLS | Do they precede the storms? (5) |
| SEVER | In the storms everybody is cut off (5) |
| FREYA | The Norse goddess of love; name of the storm which battered our county in March last year (5) |
| OPALS | Iridescent gems found in the Australian towns of Coober Pedy and Lightning Ridge |
| TENET | "At the Center of the Storm" author George |
| BRUNT | Impact, force: cop the full - of the storm |
| RUDRA | Father of the storm gods Marut. |
| CHUBASCO | Violent thunder and lightning storm during the rainy season along the coasts of Mexico, Central and South America (8) |
| THOR | Norse god of thunder and lightning with the hammer Mjolnir (4) |
| STORMY | (Of weather) windy and often accompanied by thunder and lightning |
| ZEUS | Greek god of thunder and lightning |
| CLOUDS | Coming soon: If you look up and see dark ___, thunder and lightning may be on the way |
