| NIGHTTIME | Period when it is dark (5-4) |
| WHITENIGHT | A period when it is never properly dark, as in high latitudes in summer (5,5) |
| CLOSESEASON | Period when it is illegal to kill certain game (5,6) |
| ATDEADOFNIGHT | When it is dark and still (2,4,2,5) |
| UNLIT | One goes to bed in France when it is dark (5) |
| NIGHTLY | Every evening when it is dark |
| KNIGHT | Chivalrous type when it is dark, we hear (6) |
| LIGHTBULB | Nimble tailless animal, black, is dark eliminator (5,4) |
| NOTFAIR | Childish complaint that it is dark (3,4) |
| ARCTICFOX | The creature Alopex lagopus, whose fur is dark grey in the summer and white in the winter |
| SUNSPOT | Blemish on paper — it is dark against bright background |
| REDMEAT | Meat, such as beef or lamb, that is dark brown when cooked (3,4) |
| GLOOM | Far side in cooling tower is dark (5) |
| POTS | "When I come home, baby, my house is dark and my ___ are cold" |
| MOON | 'The sun to me is dark/And silent as the ___' (John Milton Samson Agonistes (1671) (4) |
| ENYA | Irish singer whose most recent album is "Dark Sky Island" |
| DIM | Centre-back is dark |
| SOMBRE | 75 per cent of hat is dark |
| SUNDOWN | After this the outlook is dark (7) |
| GLOOMY | Part of igloo mystery is dark (6) |
