Possible Clues:

• Matched up an old flame?
• Like old cigars, maybe
• Ignited a snuffed wick
• Fixed, as a pilot
• 'Alighted, perhaps, once more (5)'
• Building worker returns and is fired again
• Fired again, pinching old widow's second key
• Like a menorah after an unexpected breeze, perhaps
• Roof repairer returning struck another match
• Got going again when the building worker returned