| WICK | Braided cotton cord in a candle or an oil lamp; dialect for ; dairy farm; or, Anglo-Saxon word for a settlement used in some of England's place names (4) |
| RUN | Anglo-Saxon word for a sprint or gallop that also means fill a bath, flee, flow, migrate upstream, print, sail before the breeze, sew quickly or smuggle (3) |
| CHIMNEY | A fireplace's flue; a steam engine's smokestack; a volcano's vent; or, an oil lamp's glass tube for protecting its flame (7) |
| CART | Once a beautiful rustic wainwright-crafted horse-drawn wagon of Norse or Anglo-Saxon origin, today a Tesco trolley or virtual shopping barrow (4) |
| SPILL | Quantity of upset milk or oil, for example; or, a splinter of wood or twist of paper for transferring a flame to a candle or an open fire (5) |
| SHIRES | Draught horses traditionally adorned with brasses and with manes plaited with colourful ribbons/flights; or, Anglo-Saxon administrative divisions, next above hundreds (6) |
| LANTERN | A portable lamp with a glass or paper case protecting a candle or an electric bulb; or, the light within (7) |
| FONT | A complete character set within a typeface family; a baptistery; or, an oil reservoir in a lamp (4) |
| WALL | Blockade of shields formed by Romans or Anglo-Saxons in a military tactic; or, a vertical rock face (4) |
| STRIKE | Anglo-Saxon word for "to go or flow" or "to rub lightly" that came to mean a hit; an attack by aircraft; a raid; a find, as in gold, luck or oil; or, a downing of work tools in protest (6) |
| TAPER | Anglo-Saxon word for any wax candle that came to mean a long thin waxed wick or spill for transferring a flame; a gradual narrowing or reduction; or, a dim or feeble light (5) |
| CRISP | Anglo-Saxon word for curly/frizzy hair originally, later a wafer of potato deep-fried as a snack; or, a pudding of fruit with a crumble-like topping (5) |
| ORCS | Anglo-Saxon word for "demons" that came to mean ferocious sea monsters, human-eating giants, killer whales or Tolkien's ogres (4) |
| STUB | An old worn horseshoe nail; the truncated remnant of a candle or pencil; or, the counterfoil of a cheque, receipt or ticket (4) |
| SPLINT | Fragment of diamond; another word for a spill for transferring a flame to fireplace or candle; or, a flexible lath used in basketry (6) |
| STICK | A bow for a fiddle; a conductor's baton; a tall support for a tapering candle; or, a walking-cane (5) |
| LIT | Descriptor for a candle or a party |
| DRAWSTRING | A cord in a casing or threaded through material by which the material can be gathered up (10) |
| TORCH | Flambeau associated with unrequited love or carried by runners in a relay to light the Olympic flame; a large candle; or, a flashlight (5) |
| CRESSET | Secrets in an oil lamp on a pole (7) |
