| HALO | A ring of light or colour around the sun or moon caused by refraction by ice-crystals (4) |
| PUMICE | Dark colour around the motorway is rock (6) |
| VIOLENT | Bluish-red colour around the North isn't at all peaceful (7) |
| REDWOODS | Tall, evergreen conifers with colours around the timber (8) |
| CORONA | Aureola of the sun or moon caused by diffraction by cloud droplets or ice crystals; the trumpet of a daffodil or other narcissus; or, a circular chandelier in a church (6) |
| RACE | The channel of a millstream, the course of the sun or moon; or, the rapid current or flow of the tides (4) |
| DISC | Word derived from a quoit thrown in ancient Greek games, for a circular object such as a record, CD, centre of a daisy or the seemingly flat figure presented by the Sun or Moon (4) |
| LIMB | The edge of the disc of the Sun or Moon as viewed from Earth (4) |
| AUREOLA | In art, a golden or luminous cloud represented encircling the body or head of a saint or other sacred personage; or, a halo around the sun or moon (7) |
| RAINBOW | Arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of the sun's rays by rain (7) |
| EVECTION | Periodical variation in the motion of the moon caused by the attraction of the sun (8) |
| MOCKSUNS | Atmospheric parhelia, aka spots of light, ridiculing Helios/Sol by appearing in said star's halo as a result of refraction by crystals of ice (4,4) |
| SUNDOG | Depicted in a drawing by John Sell Cotman, a parhelion on the solar halo as a result of diffraction of light by ice crystals in the atmosphere (6) |
| ORBIT | Term for the path of a body revolving around an attracting centre of mass, as a planet around the Sun or a satellite around a planet (5) |
| CIRRUS | From "curl, lock of hair", word for the wispy white or feathery clouds or "mare's tails" of frozen crystals forming at high altitude and responsible for halos around the Sun or the Moon; or, in botany |
| ECLIPSE | An obscuration of the light of the Sun or Moon by the intervention of another body (7) |
| HUGE | Substantial front to garden, with colour around |
| MIRAGE | An image of a distant object, often inverted or distorted, caused by atmospheric refraction by hot air (6) |
| CORONAE | Circles of light around the sun or moon |
| MIRAGES | Images of distant objects, often inverted or distorted, caused by atmospheric refraction by hot air (7) |
