| WICKS | Fibres for illumination from a Caithness royal burgh starting to sparkle (5) |
| LIGHT | Illumination from a window (5) |
| OPTIC | Eye's nerve has sensory fibers for transmission of impulses to the brain for interpretation (5) |
| UNLIT | With illumination from star, head off in dark (5) |
| GLINT | Good kind of fabric to sparkle (5) |
| TORCH | Search crypt or chancel for illumination (5) |
| OLRIG | Caithness parish to sell better mini computing terminals (5) |
| KLEIN | French artist's contribution to sparkle intensely |
| LIGHTMUSIC | Illumination from a composer? (5,5) |
| LAMPLIGHT | Illumination from a 5,500-watt, 110-volt bulb? (9) |
| GLOW | Related to the Icelandic meaning "to sparkle", a word for luminosity or phosphorescence; the rosiness of a healthy complexion; or, a feeling of warmth or wellbeing (4) |
| CANDLELIGHT | Illumination from a taper (11) |
| SPINDLE | A rod with a notch in the top, used to draw out natural fibres for spinning into thread (7) |
| SPINDLES | Rods or sticks with a notch in the top, used to draw out natural fibres for spinning into thread (8) |
| THREAD | Strand of twisted cotton or silk fibres for needlework; helical groove of a screw; or, a series of messages on an internet forum (6) |
| MARBLE | From the Greek meaning "to sparkle", a rock used in sculpture or architecture; or, a small glass ball (6) |
| THREADS | He darts round to get fibres for the dressmakers (7) |
| COMB | Tool for preparing carded cotton or wool fibres for spinning (4) |
| MATTING | Coarse material woven from natural fibres for floor coverings (7) |
| CRESSET | A metal basket mounted on a pole in which oil or pitch was burned for illumination |
