| WAITOMO | King Country glow-worm location (7) |
| SIAM | "Anna and the King" country |
| GHANA | Meaning "warrior king", country known as the Gold Coast until it gained independence in 1957 (5) |
| REALM | Future almost gripping the king's country (5) |
| FIREFLY | Beetle related to the glow-worm (7) |
| LUCERNE | From "glow worm", a name for alfalfa, in allusion to its shiny seeds (7) |
| WILLIAM | Forename of a Lake poet who described glow-worms as Earth-born stars, an evening as beauteous and calm, a multitude of golden daffodils as a host and a crowd and himself as a lonely floating cloud (7) |
| EYECATCHER | Glow-worm gets the girl, we hear ? a bobby-dazzler! (3-7) |
| GLEAM | From "glow-worm", word first for a bright/brilliant light such as a sunbeam, but now a dim or transient glow (5) |
| MILLS | Brothers who sang "Glow Worm" |
| LEGUMINOUS | Resembling a pulse, like a glow-worm, say, trapped (10) |
| BEETLE | Glow-worm,say (6) |
| MOIRE | Watered port drunk up by Glow-worm (5) |
| MILLSBROTHERS | Group whose hits included "The Glow-Worm" and "Tiger Rag" |
| IMBROGLIO | Confused situation has Glow-worm's sibling getting lost in Oxford for starters (9) |
| LUMINOUS | Like glow-worms (8) |
| GROTTO | Source of glow-worms possibly reached crossing (6) |
| NIGHT | Dusk until dawn when nocturnal animals hunt, photosynthesis stops, female glow-worms give off light, honeysuckle releases its scent and noctilucent clouds are observed (5) |
| MISNOMER | Glow-worm for instance chews persimmon - not quietly |
| GLIMMER | Rimmel make-up's after good glow (7) |
