| AURORA | Dawn; or, a natural light display, also known as "merry dancers" (6) |
| AURORABOREALIS | Radiant display also called the Northern Lights |
| SUNLIT | To be seen in a natural light (6) |
| BLITHE | As merry as the spirit of Shelley's skylark (6) |
| ANDTHE | 1963 Laurens van der Post novel filmed in 1983 as Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (3,4,3,3,5) |
| DAISY | She is seen in a natural light (5) |
| NURSERYMAN | Sister set about growing as merry as a horticulturalist (10) |
| THESEED | 1963 Laurens van der Post novel filmed in 1983 as Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (3,4,3,3,5) |
| SOWER | 1963 Laurens van der Post novel filmed in 1983 as Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (3,4,3,3,5) |
| ARBOUR | Shady garden alcove, either a wooden bench with a canopy or a natural formation of trees (6) |
| SPRING | A fountainhead; the rise of the sea to its extreme height; or, a beginning, birth, dawn or freshest time, hence the vernal season of growth, when buds and plants bloom and burst forth (6) |
| CHORUS | An ensemble of singers; or, any simultaneous utterance, such as the collective songs and twitterings of birds at dawn or the chirpings of crickets/grasshoppers by night (6) |
| SUNBOW | Prismatic arc of colours as a result of the refraction of natural light shining through the mist or spray of a waterfall, cascade or fountain (6) |
| KNIGHT | Chess piece which sounds like absence of natural light (6) |
| STREAMER | A long tapering pennon; a light display of the aurora borealis; a banner headline; or, a fishing fly designed to mimic a minnow |
| SUNRAY | Natural light beam |
| CORNEA | Natural light refractor |
| ATRIUM | Open room with natural light |
| BATHED | Suffused, ... in natural light |
| SUNTEA | Beverage brewed in natural light |
