| LIGHTHOUSEMAN | The brilliance he maintains should prevent disaster in the main (13) |
| SHIPWRECK | It's a disaster in the main (9) |
| PHOSPHORESCENCE | Showing brilliance, he's chosen to work with copper (15) |
| FIREDOOR | Dire roof needing repair, this might prevent disaster (4,4) |
| AVERT | Prevent (disaster) |
| ANTIHISTAMINE | He maintains it is new drug (13) |
| FLASHINTHEPAN | The brilliance of cookware brought failure to flintlocks (5,2,3,3) |
| SLIPPERYSLOPE | Disaster in the making |
| TRIUMPH | The other 'impostor' with Disaster in the poem If by English writer Rudyard Kipling (7) |
| MIGRATED | Left the country, great disaster in the centre (8) |
| ASOFLATE | Tales of a disaster in the recent past (2,2,4) |
| TRUTHOR | & 24ac Torturer had disaster in the TV show and game (5,2,4) |
| DARE | Torturer had disaster in the TV show and game (5,2,4) |
| ARENA | Near a disaster in the sporting field (5) |
| BLOATED | Puffed up lot, a disaster in the cot (7) |
| TORNADO | Natural disaster in "The Wizard of Oz" |
| BUSHFIRE | Disaster in the outback witnessed by Moses (4,4) |
| SNARES | Traps that caused a near disaster in the ship (6) |
| JUGGERNAUT | Vehicle causing vessel to suffer near disaster in the channel (10) |
| WATER | The brilliance, lustre and purity of a diamond, such as one in the first degree, considered flawless; a wavy sheen on moire silk or taffeta; or, a liquid compound known in its solid or gaseous state a |
