| SUNBURST | Brilliant flash from the heavens or surge of light from a dark cloud, whose rays are reflected in things from classical guitar finishes to decorative designs on antique clocks and the shapes of jewell |
| ATEN | God represented by a disk whose rays terminate in human hands |
| NIMBUS | Large, gray rain cloud whose last three letters are a public transit vehicle |
| FLUCTUS | Wave or surge of water, also metaph., of people or crowds (4th) |
| SORD | A blade-like word for a flight, rising, spring or surge of mallards (4) |
| IDEA | Brilliant flash of inspiration |
| ECLAT | Brilliant flash |
| ORBIT | A medieval cart's "wheel-track", thus a planet's repeated "track" through the heavens; or, the "rut" in which an anatomical oculus rests (5) |
| FIRMAMENT | A literary term for the heavens or sky (9) |
| SKY | The heavens or upper atmosphere |
| ONRUSH | A sudden development or surge that is too quick to control (6) |
| CROCODILE | Name, from "lizard", for a reptile whose "tears" are metaphorical for feigned sorrow or hardship and whose serrated jaws are reflected in a clasping snapping spring-loaded metal clip (9) |
| EGGS | Hens' shelly ova, whose oviform or ovate shapes are reflected in those of certain varieties of white aubergines and in architectural ovoli (4) |
| HAIRPINS | Kirbigrips or similar bobby clips whose U-shapes are reflected in the bends or switchbacks in roads (8) |
| SCALLOPS | Coquilles, queenies or pectens whose fan-shaped shells are reflected in wavy-edged or fluted dishes, fabric, knitting or lace (8) |
| OPTICS | Word, from "seen" and perhaps "eye", for the science of light from the sun and the sky; or, pub measurers on inverted bottles of gin, rum or rye (6) |
| ASCOT | "Gold Cup town" whose royal race meet's formality, grandeur and tradition are reflected in a silk cravat or "flourish" for the neck (5) |
| FRIGID | The cold region inside the Arctic or Antarctic Circle where the sun's rays are very oblique are called the --- Zones (6) |
| STIRRUPS | A saddle's foot irons whose shapes are reflected in the body's tiniest bones, called "stapes" (8) |
| ECLIPSE | The obscuring of light from a celestial body by the passage of another (7) |
