| WINS | Successes for the Suns or the Storm |
| NBA | Org. for the Suns or the Heat |
| TEAM | Suns or Stars |
| MINISERIES | "The Stand" or "The Storm of the Century" |
| EYEOF | Words before "newt" or "the storm" |
| NIMBUS | A cloud, especially a raincloud, or the storm that comes from it |
| RISE | Ascent; the surfacing of a fish to take a fly; the appearance of the Sun or the Moon above the horizon; the height of an arch, incline or step; or, an angry or excited response (4) |
| DIGIT | Word for 1/12 of the diameter of the Sun or the Moon; a numeral; any one of the fingers, so called for the practice of counting on said pinkies, pointers or "Onkaparingas"; or, a finger-breadth (5) |
| CIRRUS | From "curl, lock of hair", word for the wispy white or feathery clouds or "mare's tails" of frozen crystals forming at high altitude and responsible for halos around the Sun or the Moon; or, in botany |
| HALO | Word for a circle of light round the Sun or the Moon originally, later the nimbus of a saint; or, the figurative aura of glory of a venerated person (4) |
| LIMBS | Apparent edges of the discs of the Sun or the Moon; graduated arcs of sextants and quadrants; or, the halves forming archery bows (5) |
| DISC | The seemingly flat face of the sun or the moon; or, any thin flat circular object, such as a CD, counter, daisy's "eye", quoit, saucer or vinyl record (4) |
| TRANSIT | In astronomy, the passage of a planet across the face of the Sun or the Moon (7) |
| MERCURY | Named after a talaria-wearing swift-flying Roman messenger god, the first planet from the Sun or, the element with the symbol Hg (7) |
| CANDLE | Form of illumination prior to the light bulb other than the Sun or the "parish lantern", or Moon (6) |
| NEPTUNE | Eighth planet from the Sun; or, the Roman god of the sea (7) |
| SOL | The Sun or the Earth? One has to go (3) |
| SKYLIT | Illuminated by the Sun, or the stars and moon at night |
| BASK | Revel in the sun or the acclaim |
| ORB | The sun (or the moon) |
