| CUTITFINE | Arrive in the nick of time and make the grade all right! |
| COMEUPTOSCRATCH | Equal score and make the grade (4,2,2,7) |
| CONTACTS | Study routines over time, and makes the connections (8) |
| NET | Invest from time to time and make a score? |
| REGULATE | Organise excellent German university students in singular grade all-round (8) |
| ATTHELAST | And 13 - In the nick of time (2,3,4,6) |
| SHAKEALEG | Hurry up and make the dog wave us goodbye (5,1,3) |
| EARLYBIRD | First to arrive in the library, Ed (5,4) |
| CUTSADISC | Current casuist turns and makes the record (4,1,4) |
| SPUR | At the ___ of the moment : in the nick of time? |
| ELEVENTH | The hour to be saved at in the nick of time (8) |
| PRISON | A jug of porridge in the nick of time (6) |
| LASTMINUTE | At the ___, in the nick of time (4,6) |
| EVE | "Holly" day on which mail carriers help Old St. Nick get gifts to their destinations in the nick of time: Christmas ___ |
| SKILLY | It has been consumed in the nick of time (6) |
| CRIMINAL | Being bad, one may finish up in the nick of time! (8) |
| CONVICT | One who's in the nick of time after politician Vera, investigating corruption, starts (7) |
| AMID | In the middle of the morning I would arrive in the end (4) |
| OCTOBER | Month of the year in which large numbers of redwings arrive in the UK (7) |
| ATTHELASTMINUTE | Just in the nick of time |