The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word STARLIGHT
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More clues leading to the result STARLIGHT
- Sailor surrounded by minor celestial illumination
- Left going in terribly straight to produce shiner
- Express musically this faint glimmer
- Something black in modest shiner
- That girl's dazzled … by such illumination?
- Sailor bitten by little rays
- Sailor shrouded in faint glow at night
- Nameless 23 given high-tension illumination
- Faint illumination to begin enveloping a lot of land
- Sailor seen in faint nocturnal illumination
Buddy explains!
The straight part
We know that "shiner" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case shiner = starlight.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.
What does STARLIGHT mean?
STARLIGHT noun- Light emitted from stars other than the Sun.