Crossword Puzzle Grows brighter

Clue: Grows brighter

Grows darker (e.g. DIMS with 4 letters)
Grows wiser (AGES with 4 letters)
Grows fond of (WARMSTO with 7 letters)
" . . . one of them ___ and grows old": Shak. (ISFAT with 5 letters)
"Crescit eundo" ("It grows as it goes") is its motto: Abbr. (NMEX with 4 letters)
Brighter (e.g. ROSIER with 6 letters)
It grows on ewe (FLEECE with 6 letters)
"--- Grows in Brooklyn" (ATREE with 5 letters)
'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn' writer Betty (SMITH with 5 letters)
Grows weary (e.g. TIRES with 5 letters)