| UPPERHAND | 4, a horse with superiority |
| SNOOTY | Condescending or snobbish, prone to act with superiority (6) |
| QUAD | Meaning "four", a word used as a prefix in names of things including a courtyard, a 4 x 4 motorbike and a four-footed animal such as a horse; or, a serving of four shots of espresso (4) |
| BAIT | From Old Norse for "pasture, food" and "cut with the teeth", a word meaning set dogs on; chase/hunt with hawks or hounds; furnish a hook with a lure; provide a horse with provender on a journey; or, t |
| SLOW | A nostalgic song by 6 and 4 a€“ or a 13 in France (4,5) |
| TRAIN | A nostalgic song by 6 and 4 a€“ or a 13 in France (4,5) |
| QUADRANT | From the Latin meaning "four", a fourth part/sector of a circle; or, a mariner or stargazer's old instrument with a graduated arc of 90 degrees for measuring altitudes (8) |
| DUN | Greyish brown; a horse with a coat of this colour, combined with a black mane and tail; an importunate debt collector; a hill-fort; or, a fishing fly resembling a subimago mayfly (3) |
| SNUB | With a notable example involving Beau Brummell and the Prince Regent (later George IV), a deliberate rebuff or rebuke (4) |
| TASSERA | From "four", a cube, die or square tablet on which a watchword was written as a token or ticket in classical times; or, a small quadrilateral block/tile for mosaic (7) |
| RAV | With "4," a Toyota |
| PERV | 4 a 5 (4) |
| PLUS | _ 4, a 1950 Morgan release (4) |
| MIDDLEWATCH | It ends at 4 a.m., on a boat |
| SLEEPER | A person at 4 a.m., typically |
| HRS | 4 a.m. and 4 p.m., e.g. |
| UNGODLY | Like a 4 a.m. wake-up call, maybe |
| COCKTAIL | Old word for a horse with a docked cauda or for a racehorse with mixed lineage; now a mixed drink; a fruit medley; or, any melange (8) |
| REPOMAN | 1984 film with the tagline "It's 4 a.m., do you know where your car is?" |
| LITER | Unit of volume equal to one cubic decimetre (0.001 cubic metre). From 1901 to 1964 the litre was defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water at 4 A°C (39.2 A°F) and standard atmospheric pres |