| SPARKLE | Word for glitter, an emission of fiery particles, scintillation, vivacity, the lustre of a diamond or the appearance of effervescence or fizz in champagne or pop (7) |
| SHEBEEN | Live within the lustre of a spirited place (7) |
| BRUSH | An artist's implement for painting, historically referred to as a pencil; a brief encounter; a fox's tail; or, an emission of electrical sparks (5) |
| ALEWIFE | Fish shows a vivacity - the minnow finally caught |
| ORIENT | Special lustre of a pearl of finest quality (6) |
| TARNISH | Diminish the lustre of |
| TWINKLE | A dance step; a glitter; a blink or a wink; the scintillation or sparkle of a light or a celestial star; or, a former comic for girls (7) |
| DOPPLERPRINCIPLE | A law that accounts for the perceived change in frequency of an emission made by a moving object (7,9) |
| SPARKLER | A beer pump's head-frothing nozzle; fizzy wine; a diamond; or, a handheld firework emitting a shower of glittering fiery particles (8) |
| SPARKS | Small pieces of diamond; nickname for an electrician; or, the fiery particles created when flint is struck with steel (6) |
| OFFSET | Carbon ______ is any activity that compensates for the emission of carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases by providing for an emission reduction elsewhere (6) |
| LOZENGE | Heraldic charge in the shape of a diamond, used especially for the arms of an unmarried or widowed woman or a deceased person (7) |
| 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 |
| SPREAD | A bedcover; a feast laid on a table; the face-up appearance of a diamond; a double page; or, butter, jam, pate or other soft tasty topping for bread (6) |
| VOLCANIC | Is capable of fiery outbursts knocking back most of the garlic, cutting the head in a frenzy (8) |
| REEF | Gold- or quartz-bearing vein in the earth; the non-diamondiferous rock of a diamond mine; or, a ridge of coral (4) |
| POINT | Unit of scoring in sports; or, 1/100th of a carat of a diamond (5) |
| CARAT | The unit of mass of a diamond sounds like an orange vegetable |
| RESULT | The consequence of spoiling the lustre (6) |
| SHEEN | She took a measure of the lustre |