| REPAPER | To do so will brighten the room whichever way you look at it (7) |
| OVERPAY | To do so will inflate one's earnings but could make OAP very upset (7) |
| AZALEAS | These showy members of the rhododendron genus brighten the late spring garden (7) |
| GASLAMP | Fling during intermission? It will brighten things up (3,4) |
| ENDORSE | One's red, confused, so will give it one's backing (7) |
| PROLONG | Professional went past the green's so will take more time (7) |
| ABOLISH | A former pupil, in short, hails from different places so will get rid of it all (7) |
| MATURES | Grows up, so will give us a term to change (7) |
| SOMEONE | I don't know who, therefore, will get me to the unit (7) |
| DWINDLE | May grow less, so will waste away (7) |
| MAKEENDSMEET | Bring two sides together? To do so will result in happiness for Micawber (4,4,4) |
| DISMOUNT | To do so will be a comedown when a police inspector's on a horse (8) |
| STOPOFF | Strike cancelled so will call in (4,3) |
| FALSE | It wasn't true at the beginning, so will have to try again (5,5) |
| START | It wasn't true at the beginning, so will have to try again (5,5) |
| NEONLIGHT | Hot girl online wanting love - perhaps it will brighten things up (4,5) |
| SUNLIGHT | Start of series: funny, occasionally amusing, it will brighten things up (8) |
| STRIPLIGHT | Error found in minute - it will brighten things up! (5,5) |
| CHRISTMAS | - rose, a snow and frost resilient species of hellebore with radiant white blooms in the colder months, often planted to brighten the winter garden (9) |
| DAPHNE | The fragrant pink and white blooms of ___ odora brighten the winter garden (6) |
