| FLASH | Rush of water; bolt of lightning; burst of illumination; collective group of paparazzi; or, a sci-fi superhero (5) |
| CAMERASHY | Unappreciative of paparazzi |
| FLASHCUBE | Device attached to film cameras which allows four bursts of illumination |
| ENSEMBLE | Collective group of instrumentalists or singers performing together; a person's coordinated outfit; or, the chorus of a ballet company (8) |
| CAST | Throw of a fishing line; or, the collective group of actors/actresses performing in a film or play (4) |
| PEG | Word for a bolt of wood; a leg or a tooth; a key/screw for tuning a musical string; a cricket stump; a piton; a spillikin for scoring in cribbage; a coat hook; or, a turtle harpoon (3) |
| SHAFT | Vertical passageway into a mine; ray of sunlight; a bolt of lightning; the rachis of a feather; or, an arrow (5) |
| THUNDER | Feared by an astraphobe, a sound caused by the rapid expansion of heated air around a bolt of lightning (7) |
| SNAPTHESTREAK | Photograph a bolt of lightning? |
| PEGS | Word for pins or bolts of wood, thus wooden legs or teeth; or, spillikins whose final positions on cribbage-boards signify the end of the game, thus metaphorically the end of life (4) |
| HEAVENSENT | Bolt of lightning from Athens? Even that is odd! (6-4) |
| USAIN | Bolt of lightning speed |
| STREAK | Bolt of lightning |
| LIGHTNING | Tampa Bay NHL team whose name is a nonplural noun that's a bolt of electricity |
| AHAS | Sudden bolts of lightning |
| QUARRELS | Word for squabbles or wrangles that also refers to square things, including panes of glass, tiles or arrowheads for the bolts of arbalests/crossbows (8) |
| OWLS | Birds whose collective group is known as a parliament |
| FLUSHED | cleaned with a rush of water |
| FLATFISH | Swimmer twisted one foot, caught in a rush of water |
| TORRENT | A rush of water from the river in rotten storm (7) |
