| GLIM | Thought to be a contracted style of "shimmer" or "sparkle", an old word for a candle, lantern or light; an eye; a pair of spectacles; or, a quick peep (4) |
| TWINKLE | A dance step; a glitter; a blink or a wink; the scintillation or sparkle of a light or a celestial star; or, a former comic for girls (7) |
| SCONCE | The head; university slang for a tankard of ale drunk without taking a breath as a fine for a breach of rules or etiquette; the mug used; a lantern or screened torch carried by a handle; a bracket can |
| TRUNDLE | Word, from "disc, roller, trend, wheel", for a steady bowl or roll along; a castor or small roller; a hoop; a spool of golden heraldic thread; the pinion of a lantern; or, a low rollaway bed (7) |
| STIR | A commotion; a slight movement or sensation; or, a slang word for "jail" that is thought to be a shortening of the Romany for "prison" (4) |
| LUMINARIA | Word for a little bonfire originally, later a paper lantern or farolito, with sand and a candle inside, as a Spanish or Mexican festival decoration (9) |
| BULLSEYE | Centre of a target, called gold in archery; boss of a crown glass disc; oculus or oeil-de-boeuf; lantern; or, a peppermint-flavoured sweet (5-3) |
| NOODLE | Derived from a German word thought to be a variant of "dumpling", a pasta-like strip and staple food in Chinese and Japanese cuisines (6) |
| GLITTER | Effect also known as silver thaw; brilliance, glamour, glitz or sparkle; or, tiny pieces of scintillating foil for decoration (7) |
| RUPTUREWORT | Old World plant of the pink family once thought to be a cure for hernias (11) |
| SCAMEL | In 'The Tempest' (Act 2, Scene 2), a word of unknown meaning, thought to be a bird (6) |
| AMULET | A trinket or piece of jewellery thought to be a magical protection against evil (6) |
| MERLOT | Wine grape variety whose name is thought to be a diminutive of the French word for blackbird (6) |
| LAUNDRY | Derived from a contracted form of "lavender", clothes and linen for washing or those that have been washed; or, the utility room where said ablutions take place (7) |
| CANDLE | Form of illumination prior to the light bulb other than the Sun or the "parish lantern", or Moon (6) |
| BLACKOUT | By the end of September, 1939, Londoners had to get used to this almost total ban on showing any lig |
| DIS | Who was god of the lower or infernal world in Roman mythology and his name, thought to be a translat |
| LIT | Descriptor for a candle or a party |
| RUDKIN | David ___, playwright whose works include Afore Night Come, The Triumph of Death and The Sons of Lig |
| EMICATE | Obsolete word meaning to spring up or sparkle (7) |
