| RESTDAY | 24 hours off (4,3) |
| LACKADAY | Sorry to get 24 hours off? (8) |
| NOURISH | Nurse in hours off |
| EMERALD | Green space before messenger taking hour off (7) |
| ERRANDS | German chap takes hour off - and son gets chores! (7) |
| SAPPORO | Taking hour off, poet runs round Japanese city (7) |
| TEACAKE | Teach a king English, with an hour off for a bite? (7) |
| OFFROST | TV detective series giving hour off to cast surprisingly (1,5,2,5) |
| DAYBREAK | Dawn gets just twenty-four hours off? |
| FIVEDAYWEEK | Key aide: very few could afford one with forty-eight hours off |
| ENGLISHCHANNEL | Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim this in 1926, knocking two hours off the men's record |
| PASCAL | Easter's hour off for French philosopher (6) |
| EDIT | Girl got hour off to check and polish |
| LAKEHURON | Elk an hour off in water on Ontario's border (4,5) |
| THERUTLES | Idle group, those without pity endlessly taking second hour off (3,6) |
| PUTTHECLOCKBACK | Take an hour off and return the timepiece (3,3,5,4) |
| ATOUCH | TV detective series giving hour off to cast surprisingly (1,5,2,5) |
| TIMEONYOURHANDS | 4 down is only missing second class with hour off and school is not busy (4,2,4,5) |
| NOONDAY | Off for 24 hours at twelve! (7) |
| DISPLAY | Slip off in 24 hours to see show (7) |
