| CORONAE | Circles of light around the sun or moon |
| HALOES | Circles of light around the head |
| HALO | Circle of light around the sun or moon; or, such an aureola around the head of an angel/saint in a painting (4) |
| CORONA | Circle of light around the sun or moon |
| 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) |
| ESE | Circle of light around the moon |
| RACE | The channel of a millstream, the course of the sun or moon; or, the rapid current or flow of the tides (4) |
| 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) |
| HALOS | Laugh at the overseas circles of light |
| AUREOLAS | Circles of light or brightness (8) |
| 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) |
| TROPIC | Torrid zone / either of the two small circles of the celestial sphere on each side of and parallel to the equator which the sun reaches at its greatest declination north or south |
| LIMB | The edge of the disc of the Sun or Moon as viewed from Earth (4) |
| CORONAS | Circles of light |
| 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) |
| SPHERES | Word for globes, orbs or planets; vaults of heaven; circles of society; fields of activity; or, walks of life (7) |
| EDITH | Forename of the novelist Wharton who drew inspiration from her experiences within the elite circles of New York's high society during the Gilded Age, becoming the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize ( |
| MUSETTE | French bagpipe popular in court circles of the 17th and 18th centuries; a gavotte or pastoral air with a drone bass suggestive of said shepherd's pipe; or, a dance to such a melody (7) |
| LEAD | Display from traffic light around the top of the avenue (4) |
