| SHOOTINGSTAR | Light in the sky - could be 26! (8,4) |
| EMBER | One that may be 26 in remembrance, getting to the heart (5) |
| DREAM | Picture show may be 26 (5) |
| TENTOONE | 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1? That would be 26 across if it comes off! (3,2,3) |
| METEORREADER | One tracking a light in the sky? |
| AURORA | What natural electrical phenomenon results in streamers of coloured light in the sky especially near the magnetic poles (6) |
| UFO | Peculiar light in the sky, in brief |
| RAINBOW | Arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of the sun's rays by rain (7) |
| AFTERGLOW | Light in the sky post sunset (9) |
| STAR | Point of light in the sky |
| METEOR | Streak of light in the sky also called a shooting or falling star |
| MOON | Night light in the sky |
| STARS | Points of light in the sky |
| VICTORACLARK | She won two Tonys for Best Actress in a Musical for The Light in the Piazza and Kimberly Akimbo: 2 wds. |
| INCANDESCENT | Describing a light in the container of French perfume (12) |
| UFOS | Strange lights in the sky perhaps: Abbr. |
| SUNDOGS | Newspaper pursues strange lights in the sky |
| STARLESS | With no twinkling lights in the sky |
| MARATHON | Since 1921, the standard length for one of these has been 26 miles 385 yards (8) |
| LUMEN | The basic unit used to measure the flow of light in the SI system (5) |