| Do well |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
31 Mar 2026 |
| Follower of "sun" (for weather) or "moon" (for liquor) |
New York Times Mini |
28 Mar 2026 |
| Rise and ___ (wake-up call?) |
|
|
| Emit light (5) |
Mirror Classic |
28 Feb 2026 |
| Beam |
The Telegraph Quick |
26 Feb 2026 |
| Take That song; lustre |
The Telegraph Plusword |
01 Feb 2026 |
| Excel |
New York Times Mini |
27 Jan 2026 |
| Polish Republican leaving place of worship |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
12 Jan 2026 |
| Lustre |
The Telegraph Quick |
11 Dec 2025 |
| Give out a bright light (5) |
Mirror Classic |
01 Dec 2025 |
| Gleam |
The Atlantic |
23 Nov 2025 |
| Gleam |
Universal |
13 Nov 2025 |
| Gleam |
LA Times Daily |
02 Nov 2025 |
| Rise and ___ (wake-up call?) |
|
|
| Have a standout performance |
New York Times |
20 Sep 2025 |
| Stand out, in a good way |
USA Today |
05 Sep 2025 |
| Stand out on stage |
USA Today |
23 Aug 2025 |
| What starry skies and star pupils do |
New York Times |
22 Jul 2025 |
| Love ___ a Light, Katrina and the Waves hit (5) |
|
|
| Glow |
The Sun Two Speed |
04 Jul 2025 |
| Polish to perform superbly |
The Sun Two Speed |
04 Jul 2025 |
| Polish shoes (5) |
|
|
| Perform very well |
Newsday |
22 Jun 2025 |
| Do well when he's floundering about in (5) |
|
|
| Moon or shoe follower |
|
|
| Film for which Geoffrey Rush won a Best Actor Oscar (5) |
|
|
| At home, she is about to do some polishing (5) |
|
|
| That woman's entertaining in Polish |
|
|
| With some internal pain, she will do well (5) |
|
|
| Hen's panicky. One caught in beam (5) |
|
|
| "Rise and ___!" |
Universal |
15 Apr 2025 |
| A liking the trendy lady conceals (5) |
|
|
| Perform well |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
12 Apr 2025 |
| Glow brightly |
Commuter |
11 Apr 2025 |
| Gleam when he's in trouble |
Mirror Cryptic |
05 Apr 2025 |
| Glisten |
Mirror Quick |
05 Apr 2025 |
| Use, as a flashlight |
|
|
| Word after "sun" or "moon" |
Universal |
16 Mar 2025 |
| Perform brilliantly |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
15 Mar 2025 |
| He's in form to do well |
|
|
| Excel |
Newsday |
09 Mar 2025 |
| Do well, showing a certain polish (5) |
|
|
| Glow as husband enters function |
The Times Mephisto |
02 Mar 2025 |
| At home, she is about to polish (5) |
|
|
| "Rise and ___!" |
|
|
| Do very well to impart polish (5) |
|
|
| At home, she is about to use elbow grease (5) |
|
|
| Rise and ___ (wake-up call?) |
|
|
| Excel, as stars do (5) |
|
|
| 1997 biographical movie starring Geoffrey Rush (5) |
|
|
| Glisten |
The Telegraph Plusword |
03 Jan 2025 |
| Be very good at; polish (5) |
|
|
| She goes round in a radiant glow (5) |
|
|
| Climb to the top of Everest. Do really well (5) |
|
|
| Smart female about to do well (5) |
|
|
| Have a moment in the spotlight |
|
|
| Liking the effect of the polish (5) |
|
|
| He's upset about trendy finish (5) |
|
|
| Show particular ability (5) |
|
|
| Polish one will do very well at (5) |
|
|
| Shimmer and ___ (Animated series) |
|
|
| Give off or reflect light |
|
|
| The liking one takes to somebody with polish (5) |
|
|
| "Rise and -!" |
|
|
| Be brilliant in some respect |
|
|
| Excel in mushiness (5) |
|
|
| Beam as woman employs edgy innovation |
|
|
| 1996 biopic for which Geoffrey Rush won the Best Actor Oscar |
|
|
| Show how bright one is (5) |
|
|
| "Rise and ___!" |
|
|
| "Rise and ___" |
|
|
| Glisten |
Eugene Sheffer |
07 Aug 2024 |
| Emit light |
Mirror Classic |
06 Aug 2024 |
| Polish monument Resistance snubbed |
The Sun Two Speed |
03 Jul 2024 |
| Glow |
The Sun Two Speed |
03 Jul 2024 |
| Excel |
Universal |
02 Jul 2024 |
| Polish at which one will excel (5) |
|
|
| A liking for glitter (5) |
|
|
| Excel stand out |
|
|
| Will do brilliantly, even if she doesn't hold out! (5) |
|
|
| Use a shoe polish |
|
|
| Perform a bootblack's duty |
|
|
| Emit light |
Mirror Classic |
16 Jun 2024 |
| Perform very well |
Commuter |
14 Jun 2024 |
| She accepts fashionable lustre (5) |
|
|
| wds. |
Commuter |
27 May 2024 |
| Excel |
Commuter |
27 May 2024 |
| She's round in a glow (5) |
|
|
| Show brilliance and bit of dash in examinations (5) |
|
|
| Polish dish in every part (5) |
|
|
| Woman is about to be at home and give it a polish (5) |
|
|
| Spiff up, as a pair of shoes |
|
|
| Liking the result of your elbow grease? (5) |
|
|
| Stand out |
LA Times Daily |
21 Apr 2024 |
| Polish to a gloss (5) |
|
|
| Be excellent with gloss |
|
|
| Excel |
Commuter |
17 Apr 2024 |
| Give or reflect light (5) |
|
|
| Do well to climb to the top of Everest (5) |
|
|
| Gleam |
USA Today |
02 Apr 2024 |
| Gleam - like a Take That hit? (5) |
|
|
| Be luminescent |
|
|
| Gleam |
Universal |
15 Mar 2024 |
| A fancy (5) |
|
|
| A fancy woman, accommodates in (5) |
|
|
| Emit light |
Mirror Classic |
05 Mar 2024 |
| A lady covered in will glitter (5) |
|
|
| Liking the result of one's elbow grease |
|
|
| Rise and ___ (wake-up call?) |
|
|
| "____ On, Harvest Moon" |
|
|
| She takes in "GLOW" (5) |
|
|
| To do very well at (5) |
|
|
| A liking one has for glitter (5) |
|
|
| 1996 piano biopic |
|
|
| He's in the order to become bright |
|
|
| Fancy she is hiding in (5) |
|
|
| Film for which Geoffrey Rush won a Best Actor Oscar in 1996 (5) |
|
|
| Polish, as shoes |
LA Times Daily |
13 Nov 2023 |
| Glisten |
Eugene Sheffer |
06 Oct 2023 |
| Polish, as a shoe |
Family Time |
01 Oct 2023 |
| You might take one to a new friend |
New York Times |
08 Sep 2023 |
| Stand out function held outside hotel |
The Guardian Cryptic |
29 Aug 2023 |
| "Rise and ___, sleepyhead!" |
|
|
| "___ On You Crazy Diamond," Pink Floyd song |
|
|
| Rain's counterpart |
LA Times Daily |
10 Aug 2023 |
| Excel (at) |
New York Times |
02 Aug 2023 |
| Excel |
Universal |
23 Jun 2023 |
| Glow brightly |
USA Today |
13 Jun 2023 |
| Perform well |
LA Times Daily |
04 May 2023 |
| Perform brilliantly |
Newsday |
23 Apr 2023 |
| Excel |
New York Times |
01 Jan 2023 |
| "Rise and ___!" |
|
|
| What some smiles do |
Wall Street Journal |
22 Oct 2022 |
| Sparkle, as shoes |
Newsday |
19 Sep 2022 |
| Glisten, like a freshly waxed car |
|
|
| Glisten |
USA Today |
30 Apr 2022 |
| Polish |
Thomas Joseph |
19 Jan 2022 |
| Glisten |
Thomas Joseph |
15 Jan 2022 |
| *Certain forecast |
New York Times |
05 Jan 2022 |
| Gleam |
USA Today |
28 Dec 2021 |
| *Vitamin D source |
Universal |
22 Sep 2021 |
| Gleam |
Wall Street Journal |
24 Jul 2021 |
| Glisten |
Eugene Sheffer |
22 Apr 2021 |
| Gleam |
USA Today |
15 Apr 2021 |
| Sparkle |
Newsday |
21 Dec 2020 |
| Stand out, showing a measure of pushiness |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
17 Dec 2020 |
| Joni Mitchell album released in 2007 |
|
|
| The woman goes round home to polish |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
06 Oct 2020 |
| Do exceptionally well in cutting a Victorian adventure novel |
|
|
| Excel |
Wall Street Journal |
02 Sep 2020 |
| Glow |
LA Times Daily |
24 Aug 2020 |
| Glow |
|
|
| Gleam |
Universal |
30 Jul 2020 |
| Perform brilliantly |
New York Times |
30 Jul 2020 |
| Shampoo bottle promise |
USA Today |
07 Jul 2020 |
| Sparkle, as shoes |
Newsday |
01 Jun 2020 |
| Stand out from the crowd |
New York Times |
03 May 2020 |
| Take a ___ to (start liking) |
Universal |
28 Apr 2020 |
| What stars and bootblacks both do |
New York Times |
27 Apr 2020 |
| Give out bright light |
The Times Concise |
16 Apr 2020 |
| Glisten |
Thomas Joseph |
20 Mar 2020 |
| Film buff |
|
|
| Glisten |
USA Today |
24 Feb 2020 |
| Glisten |
Newsday |
20 Jan 2020 |
| Glow |
The Telegraph Quick |
05 Jan 2020 |
| Excel |
LA Times Daily |
24 Nov 2019 |
| Excel |
|
|
| Gleam, glisten |
|
|
| Perform brilliantly |
USA Today |
21 Sep 2019 |
| Shoe's sparkle |
Universal |
09 Sep 2019 |
| Excel |
Universal |
03 Aug 2019 |
| Stand out |
LA Times Daily |
04 Jul 2019 |
| Stand out |
|
|
| What diamonds and straight-A students do |
New York Times |
24 Jun 2019 |
| Lustre |
The Telegraph Quick |
14 Jun 2019 |
| Perform exceptionally |
Newsday |
30 May 2019 |
| Polish joint of beef brought to Spain |
|
|
| Polish function that hotel puts on |
|
|
| Give off light |
Universal |
16 Apr 2019 |
| Stand out |
Newsday |
26 Jan 2019 |
| Turn heads during the audition |
LA Times Daily |
25 Jan 2019 |
| Turn heads during the audition |
|
|
| Give off light |
|
|
| Turn heads during the audition |
|
|
| Excel |
|
|
| Perform brilliantly |
|
|
| Stand out |
|
|
| Shoe's sparkle |
|
|
| What diamonds and straight-A students do |
|
|
| Bootblack's job |
New York Times |
04 Dec 2018 |
| Stand out like a star in the night sky |
|
|
| Quiet! I need half the light |
|
|
| Shoe's sparkle |
Newsday |
10 Sep 2018 |
| Best Picture Oscar nominee that lost to 'The English Patient' |
|
|
| Give an impressive performance |
Wall Street Journal |
27 Aug 2018 |
| Polish to perform superbly |
The Sun Two Speed |
25 Jul 2018 |
| Glow |
The Sun Two Speed |
25 Jul 2018 |
| Excel |
Newsday |
19 Apr 2018 |
| Glimmer |
The Telegraph Quick |
17 Mar 2018 |
| Polish |
Thomas Joseph |
05 Feb 2018 |
| Perform really well |
Newsday |
02 Feb 2018 |
| Best Picture Oscar nominee that lost to "The English Patient" |
|
|
| Give an impressive performance |
|
|
| Bootblack's job |
|
|
| Excel |
|
|
| Excel |
New York Times |
12 Dec 2017 |
| Really stand out |
Wall Street Journal |
18 Oct 2017 |
| Glisten |
Universal |
12 Sep 2017 |
| Show some flashiness? |
|
|
| Bootblack's offering |
USA Today |
17 Aug 2017 |
| Perform superbly |
Newsday |
12 Jul 2017 |
| Gleam |
Newsday |
05 Jul 2017 |
| Luster |
Newsday |
15 Feb 2017 |
| Quiet pioneer disregarding odds to perform well |
|
|
| Bootblack's offering |
|
|
| Glisten |
|
|
| Excel |
|
|
| Take a ___ to (fancy) |
|
|
| Perform superbly |
USA Today |
18 Dec 2016 |
| "Rise and ___!" |
Universal |
27 Aug 2016 |
| Really impress the critics |
LA Times Daily |
07 Aug 2016 |
| Perform outstandingly |
|
|
| Really impress the critics |
|
|
| Perform superbly |
|
|
| Give out or reflect light |
|
|
| Glisten |
LA Times Daily |
05 Oct 2015 |
| She's covered in glitter |
|
|
| "Rise and ___!" |
USA Today |
08 Sep 2015 |
| Shoe's sparkle |
|
|
| Luster |
|
|
| "Rise and ___!" |
|
|
| Glisten |
|
|
| Perform superbly |
|
|
| Dazzle, soar with energy |
|
|
| Buff |
|
|
| Shoes' sparkle |
|
|
| Buff |
|
|
| Glow |
|
|
| Stand out in a crowd |
|
|
| Radiate |
|
|
| Brother Cane "And Fools ___ On" |
|
|
| Sparkle |
|
|
| Sparkle, as stars |
|
|
| Sparkle |
|
|
| Rise to the top |
|
|
| Be brilliant |
|
|
| Perform brilliantly |
|
|
| Shoe finish |
|
|
| Excel |
|
|
| Stand out |
|
|
| Sparkle, as shoes |
|
|
| Gleam |
|
|
| Perform brilliantly |
|
|
| "Rise and ___!" |
|
|
| Stand out |
|
|
| Rain alternative |
|
|
| Scintillate |
|
|
| Waxing result |
|
|
| Stand out |
|
|
| Give off light |
|
|
| Glisten |
|
|
| Rain's opposite |
|
|
| Shoe restoration |
|
|
| Look like a star |
|
|
| Perform exceptionally well |
|
|
| Rain alternative |
|
|
| Really stand out |
|
|
| What light bulbs and bootblacks do |
|
|
| Perform very well |
|
|
| Perform superbly |
|
|
| "Rise and ___!" |
|
|
| Glow |
|
|
| Twinkle |
|
|
| Perform well |
|
|
| Shoe restoration |
|
|
| Excel |
|
|
| Glow |
|
|
| Perform exceptionally |
|
|
| Give off light |
|
|
| Wow 'em! |
|
|
| Perform exceptionally |
|
|
| Distinguish oneself |
|
|
| Give off light |
|
|
| Shoe finish |
|
|
| Polish up |
|
|
| Do well |
|
|
| "Rise and __!" |
|
|
| Polish up |
|
|
| Rise partner |
|
|
| Show one's stuff |
|
|
| It lost out to "The English Patient" for Best Picture |
|
|
| Brilliance |
|
|
| Perform well |
|
|
| Excel |
|
|
| Distinguish oneself |
|
|
| Rise partner |
|
|
| Excel |
|
|
| Stand out |
|
|
| Liking |
|
|
| Rise partner |
|
|
| Rise and ___ |
|
|
| Word with moon or shoe |
|
|
| Stand out |
|
|
| Twinkle |
|
|
| Perform very well |
|
|
| 1996 Geoffrey Rush film |
|
|
| Glimmer |
|
|
| Partner of rise |
|
|
| Luminous |
|
|
| Glow |
|
|
| "Rise and __!" |
|
|
| "Rise and __!" |
|
|
| Word with moon or shoe |
|
|
| Sparkle |
|
|
| Stand out |
|
|
| Distinguish oneself |
|
|
| Excel, as in school |
|
|
| Sparkle |
|
|
| Shoe finish |
|
|
| Film for which Geoffrey Rush won Best Actor |
|
|
| 'Rise and _____!' |
|
|
| Alternative to rain |
|
|
| Shoe finish |
|
|
| Bootblack's offering |
|
|
| Buff |
|
|
| 1996 Geoffrey Rush film |
|
|
| Rise partner |
|
|
| Perform very well |
|
|
| Rain alternative |
|
|
| Stand out |
|
|
| Liking |
|
|
| Movie for which Geoffrey Rush won an Oscar |
|
|
| Bootblack's verb or noun |
|
|
| Radiate |
|
|
| Geoffrey Rush's Best Actor film |
|
|
| Perform well |
|
|
| Do well |
|
|
| Rush flick |
|
|
| Polish up |
|
|
| Polish |
|
|
| Best Picture nominee of 1996 |
|
|
| "Chattanooga Shoe ___ Boy" |
|
|
| Rise companion |
|
|
| Glow brightly |
|
|
| Glimmer |
|
|
| Rise and __ |
|
|
| Geoffrey Rush film |
|
|
| Shoe enhancer |
|
|
| Burnish |
|
|
| Polish |
|
|
| Glisten |
|
|
| Geoffrey Rush won an Oscar for it |
|
|
| Frankie Laine hit |
|
|
| 1996 film for which Geoffrey Rush won Best Actor |
|
|
| Patina |
|
|
| Rise's partner |
|
|
| Fancy |
|
|
| Effulgence |
|
|
| Gleam |
|
|
| Glisten |
|
|
| Luster |
|
|
| "Rise and ___" |
|
|
| Polish |
|
|
| Boot enhancer |
|
|
| Radiance |
|
|
| Rise's follower |
|
|
| Take a ___ to (fancy) |
|
|
| Beam |
|
|
| Effulge |
|
|
| Do very well |
|
|
| Stand out in a crowd |
|
|
| Be prominent |
|
|
| Spruce up shoes |
|
|
| Follower of sun or moon |
|
|
| Bootblack's query |
|
|
| Shoe job |
|
|
| Coruscate |
|
|
| Partner of rise |
|
|
| Request to the harvest moon |
|
|
| Moon or shoe |
|
|
| Be eminent |
|
|
| Stand out. |
|
|
| Luster. |
|
|
| "The wind's feet ___ along the sea."—Swinburne. |
|
|
| Opposite of rain. |
|
|
| Partner of rise. |
|
|
| Gleam. |
|
|
| Rain's opposite. |
|
|
| Gloss. |
|
|
| Glitter. |
|
|
| Clean silver. |
|
|
| Fair weather. |
|
|
| A liking or fancy: Slang. |
|
|
| Bright weather. |
|
|
| Bootblack's handiwork. |
|
|
| Stand out in a crowd |
|
|
| Bootblack's cry. |
|
|
| Be fair. |
|
|
| Be brilliant. |
|
|
| Be prominent. |
|
|
| Sunny weather. |
|
|
| Serge affliction. |
|
|
| Polish. |
|
|
| Excel. |
|
|
| Look radiant. |
|
|
| Effulgence. |
|
|