| MAINEVENT | Final boxing match of the evening: 2 wds. |
| TKO | Decidedly final boxing match result |
| JUSTABOUT | Australian takes part in fair boxing match of sorts? (4,5) |
| CLAIREDANES | She married Hugh Dancy, her costar from the 2007 movie "Evening": 2 wds. |
| AMPM | Button used to change a time display between morning and evening: 2 wds., 2 abbr. |
| ITAN | "Let's call ___ evening": 2 wds. |
| ENVIED | Was jealous of final boxing contest (6) |
| DUSKY | The colour of the evening sky on the fourth of July? (5) |
| ENTITLED | Qualified in final boxing championship |
| ROCKET | The herb arugula; a firework; the rising of a game bird when flushed; or, with "sweet", dame's-violet or mother-of-the-evening with nightscented honesty-like blooms (6) |
| GRAINY | The sand, by the end of the evening, is wet (6) |
| ORIGINAL | Master playing Largo No. 2 in the middle of the evening |
| KO | « Final boxing blow |
| HESPERUS | Son of the dawn goddess Eos and a personification of the Evening Star (8) |
| OSSEO | 'Son of the Evening Star' in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic 1855 poem The Song of Hiawatha |
| EASING | When I visited Newdowns Head, the sea was really rough, but by the end of the evening it was becoming less severe (6) |
| EVE | The First Lady is to be seen at the start of the evening |
| KOLNIDREI | An Aramaic declaration recited in the synagogue before the beginning of the evening service on every Yom Kippur |
| HOAGYCARMICHAEL | Jazz-pianist, singer and composer of such songs as Stardust and In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening (5,10) |
| BEANKING | Who, on finding the bean in the Twelfth Night cake, is placed in charge of the evening's festivities? (4,4) |
