but yeah:
- definitions should be actual definitions for the full answer (not just cluing parts of them separately)
- definitions and synonyms must match in part of speech ("holding things" doesn't work for "rack" because "holding things" is a verb and "rack" is a noun. same reason "shines" is not a definition for "sun")
- wordplay should also give the full answer, independently of the definition. your wordplay gives RACK (though some might quibble over "starting kindling" needing to be "kindling's start" or something to that effect, because "starting X" does not mean "the start of X"), but…