| LAMONT | ___ Cranston aka The Shadow |
| BRYAN | _ Cranston, starred in the Power Rangers film (5) |
| BAD | Breaking ___ (Cranston series) |
| ANNULARECLIPSE | Astronomical event in which the moon passes over the sun so that a ring of sunlight surrounds the shadow of the moon |
| OCASEY | Sean ___, Irish dramatist who wrote The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock and The Plough and the Stars |
| AZURE | "I was the shadow of the waxwing slain / By the false ___ in the windowpane": "Pale Fire" |
| SAVIOUR | The Church of St ___, Wildboarclough; it nestles in the shadow of Shutlingsloe, known locally as the Cheshire Matterhorn (7) |
| DAY | Cupid can relax: Held on the third Saturday in October, Sweetest ___ is the candycentric celebration that remains in the shadow of February's festival of love |
| LUNARECLIPSE | What happens when the Moon moves into the shadow of Earth cast by the Sun |
| INVERNESSCALEDONIAN | Scottish football team whose ground lies in the shadow of the Kessock Bridge beside the Moray Firth (9,10,7) |
| PENCE | Subject of the 2018 biography "The Shadow President" |
| NSA | Subj. of the 2008 expose "The Shadow Factory" |
| LARAMIE | City in the shadow of the Snowy Range |
| EVIL | "Who knows what ___ lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!" |
| LEST | "Beware __ you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow": Aesop |
| GNOMON | The stationary arm that projects the shadow on a sundial (6) |
| INLA | Republican paramilitary group responsible for the car bomb that killed the shadow Northern Ireland Secretary, Airey Neave, in 1979 (4) |
| UMBRA | Latin word meaning "shade" used to describe the shadow cast by the Moon onto Earth during a solar eclipse (5) |
| DIANEABBOTT | The Shadow Home Secretary since 2016 and the first black woman to become an MP (5,6) |
| HPLOVECRAFT | American gothic writer known for his works like The Shadow Out of Time and The Dunwich Horror: 3 wds. |
