| PINPOINTED | Described the location exactly, when dotted |
| EPICENTRE | Location exactly above an earthquake |
| ONCUE | Exactly when the script indicates: 2 wds. |
| DATEOFBIRTH | Exactly when you came into the world (4,2,5) |
| NEWYEAR | At the outset, naturally - exactly when you entertain ambitious resolutions |
| ADAMS | Astronomer who explained the origin of the Leonid meteor swarms, described the motion of the Moon and independently calculated Neptune's position, by mathematical rather than observational means (5) |
| ONTHEDOT | There's no returning to the point exactly when due (2,3,3) |
| CUE | Right on ___ (exactly when expected) |
| RIGHTONTIME | Exactly when needed (5,2,4) |
| NONETOOSOON | Exactly when needed |
| ETERNITY | "The boldest book of our time. Honestly, fearlessly on the screen!" was how they described the 1953 |
| ELIS | 2nd century CE geographer Pausanias described the people of this Olympic city as being the only ones who worshipped the god Hades |
| HUYGENS | Physicist who formulated the wave theory of light, described the shape of Saturn's rings, discovered Titan and invented the pendulum clock (7) |
| ALBERTI | In 1470, he published Trattati in cifra ("Treatise on Ciphers"), in which he described the first cipher disk; he prescribed that the setting of the disk should be changed after enciphering three or fo |
| ESCHEAT | Legal term which described the reversion of property to the feudal lord in the absence of legal heirs |
| ENZO | Famous Italian car boss who once described the E-Type as the most beautiful car in the world (4.7) |
| FERRARI | Famous Italian car boss who once described the E-Type as the most beautiful car in the world (4.7) |
| LONGDRIVE | How the golfer described the two-mile avenue? (4,5) |
| DEFINED | Described the fellow in the document brought round (7) |
| TIMESIGNAL | I'm stealing off ___ this may show exactly when (4,6) |
