| HALOED | Having a ring of light |
| CREDIBLE | Having a ring of truth |
| AREOLATE | Having a ring |
| ENGAGED | Having a ring, or not, when you dial (7) |
| HALO | A ring of light around the head of a saint or holy person (4) |
| CORONA | An expression of wonder concerning a ring of light (6) |
| ENHALO | Surround with a ring of light (6) |
| AURORA | A ring of light with gold in it, and dawn arrives |
| TYRE | Originally, a hoop of iron for "clothing" or "dressing" a cartwheel, later revived in the form of a ring of rubber round the rim of a wheel (4) |
| WREATH | Circlet of flowers or foliage used as a decoration or a victor's chaplet; a carved representation of such; or, a ring of twisted gold or silver (6) |
| BUNCH | Posy of flowers; hand of bananas; a cluster of grapes or, a ring of keys (5) |
| WHORL | Word for a small flywheel in a spinning machine first, later a ring of leaves; or, a turn in a spiral shell (5) |
| CIRCUS | Show performed in a big top; Roman version of the hippodrome; a ring of houses such as that in Bath; or, the genus of the harriers (6) |
| CIRCLE | An arrangement of standing stones, such as that at Avebury; a ring of flattened grain stalks in a crop field; or, a planet's orbit (6) |
| CIRCULAR | A word meaning "round", hence something, such as a letter or a notice, that goes around to a ring of people (8) |
| CORONET | A ring of bone at the base of a deer’s antler |
| LINK | A ring of a chain (4) |
| ANNULARECLIPSE | Astronomical event in which the moon passes over the sun so that a ring of sunlight surrounds the shadow of the moon |
| HYDRA | Minute freshwater organism with a tubular body and a ring of tentacles around the mouth |
| EUFLAG | It has a ring of 12 gold stars on a blue background, for short |
