| ETERNALIN | Proverb - originally by Alexander Pope - which suggests that there might be light at the end of the tunnel (7,2) |
| THEHUMAN | Proverb - originally by Alexander Pope - which suggests that there might be light at the end of the tunnel (3,5) |
| BREAST | Proverb - originally by Alexander Pope - which suggests that there might be light at the end of the tunnel (6) |
| HOPESPRINGS | Proverb - originally by Alexander Pope - which suggests that there might be light at the end of the tunnel (4,7) |
| SODSLAW | That which suggests that, if something can go wrong, it will! (4,3) |
| POWER | The ___ of Positive Thinking self-help book written by Norman Vincent Peale which suggests techniques to improve quality of life |
| HOPE | Light at the end of the tunnel in fragment of French opera (4) |
| SIERRA | What is a chain of hills or mountains, the peaks of which suggest the teeth of a saw (6) |
| OWE | Be light at the poker table |
| LOCK | "The Rape of the ___", poem by Alexander Pope (4) |
| BATHOS | From the Greek for "depth" and introduced in its literary sense by Alexander Pope, an anticlimax or ludicrous descent from the sublime to the ridiculous in speech/writing (6) |
| FROLICKING | For kinky, use of the whip might be light-hearted playing (10) |
| ONCOMINGTRAIN | Light at the end of the tunnel, to Robert Lowell |
| SETT | Almost see faint light at the end of the tunnel (4) |
| NEONATE | Newborn sees light at the end of the cradle (7) |
| SAWA | ___ light at the end of the tunnel; had hope |
| EXIT | Light at the end of the tunnel |
| SEESA | ___ light at the end of the tunnel (has hope) |
| IDIOM | "Light at the end of the tunnel," e.g. |
| ELITE | Model management company whose name suggests that it's the cream of the crop |
