| PARTSDEPARTMENT | Place in an auto dealership to pick up wiper blades or spark plugs |
| TINSELLY | Word that started with the dazzling concept of a scintilla or "spark" and evolved into the cheap love-it-or-loathe-it shimmering Christmas decoration synonymous with any gaudy glittering tawdry materi |
| AUTOPARTS | Spark plugs, wiper blades, etc |
| CARPARTS | Belts, plugs, wiper blades, etc. |
| CARLOTTA | Good name for an owner of an auto dealership |
| NEWCARSMELL | Something picked up at an auto dealership |
| MASTERCAR | Financial services giant that, after downsizing, becomes an auto dealership for chess experts? |
| LIGHTS | Old or poetic word for eyes; amber, green or red traffic signals; openings or windows for admitting sunshine; or, flames, matches or sparks that ignite or kindle (6) |
| DEMO | Car at an auto dealership |
| COIL | Transformer in an internal-combustion engine that supplies high voltage to the spark plugs (4) |
| SKATER | A boarder, ice dancer or roller, gliding on a deck, blades or wheels; or, a pond-skimming water strider (6) |
| EGGBEATER | Reflected in a helicopter's overhead chopping rotor blades or wings, an often hand-cranked utensil for flogging yolks, stiffening meringue mixtures, whipping cream, whisking whites and aerating many o |
| GRASS | Give information to police, about blades or drugs (5) |
| PACELAP | Warm-up circuit in an auto race: 2 wds. |
| LEMON | Auto seen way too much in an auto shop |
| ROTOR | The ____ arm in a distributor ensures that spark plugs fire in sequence |
| BOXSPANNER | Tool typically used to fix or remove spark plugs |
| IGNITION | In an internal-combustion engine, what operates the spark plugs (8) |
| WIDE | Expansive wiper blade going from side to side (4) |
| BULSE | A little bag or purse for diamonds, gold dust or "sparks" (5) |
