| 20 answers for: An old-fashioned or Scots "hour, moment, season, t... |
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| RANK | ANSWER | CLUE |
| STOUND | An old-fashioned or Scots "hour, moment, season, time", thus an ache, assault, astonishment, pang, stroke, time of trouble or violent shock (6) |
| ATEUP | Squandered arrival time thus? (3,2) |
| QUAINT | Old French "clever, wise", today's charmingly old-fashioned or curious (6) |
| BECK | Northern English word, of Old Norse origin, for a brook or a stream with a stony bed; a summoning nod, wave or forefinger gesture; or, Scots dialect for a bow or a curtsey (4) |
| DUFFER | Word for a no-good pedlar or hawker of sham jewellery first, thus an incompetent person; a useless fellow or fogey; a counterfeit coin; a bungling golfer; or, an unproductive mine (6) |
| DINK | Short word for a two-wheeled vehicle with a human for an engine; or, Scots dialect for a nest or swarm of ants, hornets, wasps or wild bees (4) |
| SPENCE | Old dialect or Scots word for a cottage parlour; a buttery, larder, pantry or other storeroom for victuals and domestic equipment; or, a monetary allowance (6) |
| YON | Old-fashioned or dialect word for that or those (3) |
| PAIN | From the Latin for "penalty", an ache, cramp or other bodily suffering; or, a French word for bread (4) |
| TIDE | Word, from "era, period, season, time", for the predictable pulse, watery rhythm or regular ebb and flow of the ocean or sea that turns like clockwork, four times in a lunar day (4) |
| YEAR | From the Greek "season, time" and source of "horoscope", Earth's roughly 365-day orbital period (4) |
| CARREL | From an old word for a round dance, a term for a study in a monastic cloister, thus an alcove or niche with a desk in a library for private reading (6) |
| GYRE | A literary word for a circle, revolution, ring, spiral, swirl or whirl, thus an atmospheric/oceanic vortex; or, a whorl of leaves or petals (4) |
| STORYBOOK | Word for a child's fairy tale collection; thus, an adjective evoking a sense of fanciful, fantastical, idyllic or unreal charm, like the land of make-believe or happily ever after depicted in said ill |
| MANDORLA | An Italian "almond", thus an amygdaloid aureole, frame, glory, panel or enclosure of light surrounding the figure of a holy person such as Christ; or, the oval-shaped work of art filling said vesica p |
| FLUMMERY | Dialect word for a kind of cold porridge, pudding or Scots sowens of oatmeal; blancmange; anything insipid; or, empty talk, humbug, meaningless flattery or nonsense (8) |
| HIE | Hurry, in old fashioned or poetic English |
| OLDHAT | Old-fashioned or trite (3,3) |
| OUTDATED | Old-fashioned or obsolete |
| ARCHAIC | Old-fashioned or antiquated (7) |
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