| WHENPUSHCOMESTOSHOVE | We set such homophones very indiscriminately at the moment of truth |
| LITANY | Fired indiscriminately at catalogue (6) |
| TRICKERY | "Nature, in her fantastic ____ had set such a seal of maidenhood upon Tess's countenance that he gazed at her with a stupefied air" (Thomas Hardy) |
| IMPOSITION | Task set, such as arrangement of pages for printing (10) |
| CRUNCH | Word imitative of a loud champ, chew or chomp of a croquette or bite of a biscuit; a crisis; a credit squeeze; a sit-up; or, the moment of truth (6) |
| CILLA | Former host of ITV shows The Moment of Truth, Blind Date and Surprise Surprise! who died in 2015 (5, |
| TESTINGTIME | The moment of truth for a would-be record-breaker? (7,4) |
| ZERO | Looks like midnight could be the moment of truth. (4,4) |
| HOUR | Looks like midnight could be the moment of truth. (4,4) |
| ZEROHOUR | The moment of truth? (4,4) |
| ASSENT | Permission at the moment of posting? (6) |
| MIDNIGHTSCHILDREN | Salman Rushdie novel whose title characters are born at the moment of Indian independence |
| UPON | At the moment of |
| GREEN | Colour of the flash of light sometimes seen around the moment of sunrise or sunset (5) |
| SPLASHDOWN | The moment of landing of a spacecraft in the sea (10) |
| TRIBE | Native American social federation, homophones for four of which can be found at the starts of 17-, 2 |
| SWEET | We set it out at the end of the evening meal (5) |
| INAT | ___ the kill; present for the moment of triumph |
| ADRIENNERICH | Poet and feminist who wrote "The moment of change is the only poem" |
| BREAKING | ____ point, the moment of greatest strain at which something gives way (8) |
