Lighting failure only covers live bits of film (5,7)

Independent Cryptic #12258 | 14 Across | 2026-01-21
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

[ARE (=live, exist) + CLIPS (=bits of film)] in SOLE (=only); cryptically, a solar eclipse could be described as a “lighting failure”, since the sun’s light is blocked by the moon!

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