| PUMA | Cat rolling up in the early hours, awake (4) |
| VANDALISM | Lad rolling up in van is first to mention property damage (9) |
| EMMA | The girl, in the early hours, got me up (4) |
| AMMO | In the early hours, doctor finds bullets (4) |
| USSR | Superpower that broke up in the early 1990s: Abbr. |
| MEGA | Giant rolling up a stone (4) |
| ADAM | Father of man prosecutor detained in early hours (4) |
| TAWNYOWL | Bird with a familiar call at night and in the early hours of the morning (5,3) |
| PREDAWN | Socialist has to pop round in the early hours (7) |
| MILKTRAIN | One tram link developed for transport in the early hours |
| AMUSEMENT | Diversion in the early hours sent me off round Ukrainian capital |
| MOURNING | Weeds are universal in the early hours |
| MIDNIGHT | Thing appears dim in the early hours (8) |
| ELATED | On a high with my boss coming around in the early hours |
| NIGHTSHIFT | Group of workers operating in the early hours (5,5) |
| TOPOFTHEMORNING | Irish greeting in the early hours (3,2,3,7) |
| MORN | Early hours (4) |
| BURNTHE | Work into the early hours (4,3,8,3) |
| MIDNIGHTOIL | Work into the early hours (4,3,8,3) |
| WEE | Like the early hours of the morning |
