| 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) |
| LAMPBLACK | It is dark before light pigment (9) |
| 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) |
| STANDBYME | 1962 Ben E. King song which begins: When the night has come, And the land is dark (5,2,2) |
| NOTFAIR | Childish complaint that it is dark (3,4) |
| NIGHT | The time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside (5) |
| SUNSPOT | Blemish on paper — it is dark against bright background |
| ARCTICFOX | The creature Alopex lagopus, whose fur is dark grey in the summer and white in the winter |
| REDMEAT | Meat, such as beef or lamb, that is dark brown when cooked (3,4) |
| NEGATIVE | Lacking a positive quality, thus pessimistic and stark; or, a photographic image where the dark is light and the light is dark (8) |
| 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) |
| WOOD | Speckled -, British butterfly which is dark brown with creamy yellow spots (4) |
