### Clue: Times with little light reading as plane crashes (9)
### Answer: EVENFALLS 
 ### Explanation: Definition: Times with little light
EVEN (plane, as in a plane surface) + FALLS (crashes) – I was unsure about the point of "reading", but I suppose it's saying "you can read the answer as…". I didn't know this word, but its meaning is clear, by analogy with "nightfall"