| COTTONY | Soft and light |
| FLUFFY | Soft and light |
| LAMP | Strike soft and light (4) |
| APOLLO | Myth: Roman and Greek god of poetry, medicine and light (6) |
| SUN | The sun around which the earth orbits and receives its warmth and light |
| DOPPLER | Austrian mathematician and physicist, after whom the effect of relative motion on sound and light waves is named (7) |
| VERMEER | Dutch master whose treatment of shadow and light in his paintings including Girl Interrupted at her Music, Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Astronomer and The Lacemaker is thought to have been aided by |
| TAN | Black and ___ (drink that combines dark and light beers) |
| TIDAL | There is darkness and light initially where the ocean goes in and out (5) |
| POPLARS | Trees with triangularshaped leaves, flowers borne in catkins and light, soft wood (7) |
| DOLDRUMS | Belt of calms and light winds in the Atlantic and Pacific (8) |
| IGLOOS | Inuit snow shelters, traditionally with soapstone seal-oil lamps or kudliks for cooking, drying clothes and providing heat and light (6) |
| HECTORCAMACHO | Puerto Rican professional boxer who won world titles at Super Featherweight, Lightweight and Light Welterweight between 1983 and 1992 |
| MAEVE | and 7dn, Irish novelist whose works include Circle of Friends and Light a Penny Candle |
| GAY | An old-fashioned way of saying carefree and light-hearted; colourful and bright; exuberantly cheerful; or, given to social pleasures (3) |
| FIRE | Rapid oxidation producing heat and light; or, the "spark" in the zodiac by which Aries, Leo and Sagittarius are linked by association (4) |
| POPLAR | Tree with triangular-shaped leaves, flowers borne in catkins and light soft wood (6) |
| WINTHEDAY | Succeed with energy and light, enthralling Newton |
| SONET | ___ lumiere ("sound and light," in French) |
| WISPY | Fine and light in texture (5) |
