| BEACONS | From "portents, signs, standards", a word for signal fires; hills on which they are lit; buoys, lighthouses or other fanals warning of danger; or, figurative sources of hope (7) |
| DAHLIAS | Sources of hope and inspiration in fresh salad plants (7) |
| BEACON | Source of hope? |
| SHEER | Outright source of hope in prophet (5) |
| FAITH | Substantial source of hope around one religion |
| AWASH | Flooded area used to be source of hope (5) |
| YOUR | Year ___ a period without source of hope for solvers? (4) |
| CHASE | Pursue source of hope in legal matter (5) |
| THEISM | Belief as source of hope in troubled times? (6) |
| HAKA | Source of hope otherwise called a Maori war dance (4) |
| ESCHEW | Repudiate key source of hope we elevated (6) |
| DESPAIR | A Tale of Two Cities: "It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of..." (7) |
| SPANO | Vincent of "City of Hope" |
| XRAYING | Having a look inside of Times for a sign of hope in Government (1-6) |
| SNOW | CP, author of the novels The Masters and Time of Hope (4) |
| LIGHTHOUSE | Coastline tower poetically referred to as the sentinel of the sea or a beacon of hope |
| SPIRITUAL | Song of hope and freedom, such as "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" (or word that means relating to matters of the soul) |
| UNKNOWABLE | "Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the ____" (Ambrose Bierce) |
| DANTE | Poet whom Pope Francis called "a prophet of hope, a herald of humanity's possible redemption and liberation" |
| RAINBOW | Sign of hope in part of London led by artist (7) |
