| HOTELCALIFORNIA | It's "on a dark desert highway," in song |
| MYHAIR | *"On a dark desert highway, cool wind in ___ ___" |
| ONA | ___ dark desert highway... (start to Hotel California): 2 wds. |
| STAR | Any one of- the 9,096 astral objects visible to the naked eye, particularly on a dark night or in any of the International Dark Sky Reserves (4) |
| SPOTLIT | Like a soloist on a dark stage |
| NUDE | Having nothing on a dark horse, back the favourite finally (4) |
| NIGHTTIME | On a dark occasion hitting me again (9) |
| CUMULUS | Cloud type with rounded heaps on a dark horizontal base |
| STARRYNIGHT | Trashing? Try it out on a dark but cloudless time! (6,5) |
| EERIE | Like whistling wind on a dark night |
| ABROAD | Sailor found on highway in a foreign country (6) |
| DISPENSATION | A dealing of Providence, hell to a writer: it's on a whirl (12) |
| ELEMENT | It's on a table in chemistry class |
| SCALE | It's on a fish, or used by a fishmonger (5) |
| THEAPPIANWAY | ...highway in Italy, a very quiet one and another one in the West? Yes (3,6,3) |
| CAMINO | "Any important highway," in Spain; a 16th-century highway that connected the cities of Gijon, Leon, and Madrid (6) |
| ARTERY | 'Highway' in a human |
| ASTRAL | Highway in a sea of stars (6) |
| ROAD | Public route or highway in a broad stretch (4) |
| FINCA | Have you seen my Spanish-style holiday home? It's on a cliff in Cardiff (5) |
