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Small stand with light showed brilliance (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sparkled

'showed brilliance' is the definition.
(to sparkle is to show light brilliantly)

'small stand with light' is the wordplay.
'small' becomes 's' (abbreviation - e.g. clothes size).
'stand' becomes 'park' (both can mean to place something somewhere).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'light' becomes 'led' (abbreviation for light emitting diode).
's'+'park'+'led'='SPARKLED'

(Other definitions for sparkled that I've seen before include "Scintillated, shone" , "Scintillated, flashed" , "Glittered, scintillated" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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