| NOCTUARY | A word, coined on analogy with "diary", for said day book's night-time counterpart (8) |
| EMBIGGENS | Makes larger, in a facetious word coined on The Simpsons |
| LIKEN | Make an analogy with, with "to" |
| TIDE | Time's counterpart, in a proverb |
| LIFE | Time's counterpart |
| TBA | "I dunno," in day books |
| DIARIES | Day-books |
| MONK | Day book's last prayer (4) |
| RUNCIBLE | Word coined by Edward Lear for a fork-like spoon with a cutting edge |
| ANAISNIN | Author who famously kept a diary for several decades |
| MYCOLOGY | Writer's company keeps diary for study of fungi (8) |
| RAINYDAY | Use any diary for occasion when it might be needed unexpectedly (5,3) |
| PANORAMA | Word, coined by painter Robert Barker in 1792 for his large circular "all-view" artworks, that now also means a sweeping photograph (8) |
| DELICACY | Fineness of structure or texture; fragile or graceful beauty; a dainty morsel or special culinary luxury; tact; or, the need for said propriety (8) |
| TAPESTRY | Heavy ornamental arras whose name derives from "carpet", for said rug was formerly too valuable to walk upon, thus used as a wall hanging (8) |
| DIANTHUS | Carnation, pink or sweet william's botanical nomenclature felicitously translating as "divine flower" or "flower of the gods", for said blooms have been cherished for centuries for their beauty and cl |
| HORNPIPE | Traditional British sailors' dance, named after the reed instrument that provided the music for said terpsichorean solo prance (8) |
| BOSH | Welsh dialect for a kitchen sink or a washbasin; or, from "worthless, empty", a word, coined by J J Morier, for foolish talk or absurd nonsense (4) |
| GAS | From "chaos", a word coined by Flemish chemist J B van Helmont for a perfectly elastic fluid substance, such as carbon dioxide; or, colloquially, an aimless or free-flowing chat (3) |
| EXPO | International exhibition, a word coined for the Montreal World Fair in 1967 (4) |
