| PRECIPITATE | To fall as rain - it's very sudden (11) |
| WATER | Clear liquid that falls as rain (5) |
| RENAISSANCE | New dawn as rains cease spreading across North (11) |
| DOWNS | Causes to fall, as at Epsom (5) |
| QUITEHONEST | Right as rain |
| APPLE | Described by John Keats in To Autumn as bending the "moss'd cottage-trees", an orchard fruit with many heritage varieties, used to make charlotte, crumble filling or scrumpy (5) |
| ABRUPTLY | Burly Pat reformed in a very sudden way (8) |
| VAGUELY | Very sudden attack of shivering left you initially without clear sensation |
| ABRUPT | Pub rat destroyed - that's very sudden (6) |
| TAR | Thanks to the rain, it's sticky (3) |
| BREAKING | "Marie, the dawn is ...; Marie, you'll soon be waking; To find your heart is aching; And tears will fall as you recall; The moon in all its splendour" |
| UNPEGS | Allows to rise and fall, as prices |
| NONSKID | Less likely to cause a fall, as rugs |
| NIRVANA | Lead present in unusual spell of rain - it's blissful (7) |
| DRIVING | In such rain, it's better than walking (7) |
| TEEM | Pour with rain, it's fitting on the way back (4) |
| MARINADE | Created about awful rain - it's wet in the kitchen! |
| HACKS | One of the eight nominees for Outstanding Comedy Series at the 76th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards this fall, as announced yesterday; keep solving to find out the other seven! |
| STARS | Les Miserables song with the lyric "And if you fall as Lucifer fell / You fall in flame" |
| KEELOVER | Fall, as in a faint (4,4) |
