Possible Clues:

• In artificial illumination, cut end off meat and pickle
• After half a century the hardship of the morning is a bit dim
• Hit difficulty - needed illumination
• It helps to see how to get over a bad situation
• What a 100-watt 2-volt bulb produces
• Readers' pool hit by predicament
• Following 5.0 in the morning, that's the danger of not being in the dark
• It illuminates a Buddhist monk's endless predicament
• Bright enough, but wicked, perhaps (9)
• Illumination in short supply? Install more than enough — almost