| SPARKLER | Hand-held firework used in place of a candle in a celebration cake; or a word for a diamond or a glass of champagne (8) |
| NOTICED | Unlikely description of a celebration cake, it's remarked (7) |
| BEANO | Breaks a bone in a celebration party (5) |
| SQUEALER | Tell-tale describes type of firework used |
| BURNS | Catches fire in a celebration supper on January 25 (5) |
| ROCKET | Firework used by astronauts |
| TEALIGHT | Named for its original use heating a pot of char or "ocha", a little candle in a metal cup for ambient illumination or for use with a fondue caquelon, food warmer or oil diffuser (8) |
| RHOMB | From Greek for "bull-roarer", "magic wheel" or "spinning top", a quadrilateral also called a diamond or a kite; or, a lozenge-shaped thing (5) |
| ROCK | Informal word for a diamond; seaside confectionery in the form of a mintflavour stick; or, a genre of music (4) |
| BEZEL | Word for the sloping cutting edge of a chisel, thus an oblique face of a cut diamond; or, a grooved collet in which said gem or a watch crystal is set (5) |
| STONE | The kernel of an apricot, cherry, peach, plum or other drupe fruit; a gem such as a diamond; or, a rock as a weight prior to its standardisation as an imperial unit of 14lbs (5) |
| SHINE | A feat of polishing; the opposite of rain; an old-fashioned party; or, the lustre of a twinkling diamond or a precious ore in a vein (5) |
| BIRDSEYE | A fermata; a kind of primrose, speedwell, tobacco or other plant with flowers of two contrasting colours; a small yet fiery red chilli pepper; a pattern of spotted diamonds; or, a term denoting a view |
| SPARKLE | Word for glitter, an emission of fiery particles, scintillation, vivacity, the lustre of a diamond or the appearance of effervescence or fizz in champagne or pop (7) |
| FLAW | A gust or squall; a breach or crack; or, a defect/imperfection, such as one in a diamond or other gem (4) |
| IMITATION | An act of mimicry; a caricature; or, a copy or replica of something, such as a diamond or an original painting (9) |
| LOZENGE | A rhombus or diamond; or, a pastille/troche or heraldic charge in the shape of said geometric figure (7) |
| TAPER | From the Latin word "papyrus" due to its use as a wick, a candle in Anglo-Saxon times, later a thin waxed spill; or, a gradual narrowing (5) |
| PICK | Plectrum; the best of the bunch; dialect for a diamond in cards; or, a quantity of harvested crop (4) |
| WATER | Wavy lustrous sheen on moire taffeta and some silk and satin; or, the quality of the brilliance or clarity of a diamond or other gemstone (5) |
