| BLOTOUT | Eclipse, as the sun |
| STEALMYSUNSHINE | Len song to play right before Peak Eclipse, as heard in this audio clip |
| DANCINGINTHEDARK | Bruce Springsteen song to play during Peak Eclipse, as heard in this audio clip |
| HERECOMESTHESUN | Beatles song to play after Peak Eclipse, as heard in this audio clip |
| HELIACAL | The ascension of a celestial object at the same time as the sun (8,6) |
| RISING | The ascension of a celestial object at the same time as the sun (8,6) |
| LOUISXIV | Depicted by George Blagden in the television drama Versailles, the Bourbon monarch known as the Sun King (5,1,1,1) |
| LEANNRIMES | How Do I Live singer who won the fourth season of The Masked Singer as the Sun: 2 wds. |
| HALFSET | Bisected by the horizon, as the sun |
| ELLIE | "As Sure as the Sun" singer Ms. Holcomb |
| SETS | Sinks below the horizon, as the sun |
| SET | Go below the horizon, as the sun |
| QUASAR | Energy source that may be 2 trillion times as bright as the sun |
| SIMILE | "I smile as bright as the sun," e.g. |
| RISEANDSHINE | Appear brightly in the morning, as the sun may |
| HOTUP | Become more exciting as the sun is in the sky |
| GAZE | The Sphinx's is "blank and pitiless as the sun," per Yeats |
| REDTOP | What term is given to tabloid newspapers such as The Sun and the Daily Mirror? (3-3) |
| ARIZONAPLAIN | Gino Vannelli's "Wild Horses" start: "As the sun goes down on the ___ ___..." |
| OXEYE | Yellow-flowered European plant of the daisy family sometimes known as the sun wheel; Buphthalmum salicifolium (5) |
