| INAJIFFY | First day of the year coming up, full of uncertainty almost straightaway (2,1,5) |
| LUMINARY | Dignitary confused alumni with year coming up (8) |
| NEVERMIND | Cave coming up full of rats and the like - do not fret (5,4) |
| REENTRY | Frost's never receding with temperature by turn of year coming back down |
| OLDSTAGER | One's experienced men only in later years coming round (3,6) |
| SOLSTICE | From the Latin for "sun", either the shortest day of the year or its longest, when said star reaches its highest or lowest point in the sky at noon (8) |
| ANZACDAY | Rejected by the Adelaide Festival of Arts in 1960 as too controversial, Alan Seymour's play One Day of the Year (1958) is about which day? (5,3) |
| GLORIOUS | The ____ Twelfth, term for the first day of the grouse-shooting season (8) |
| SATURDAY | Rusty and Ada married the first day of the weekend (8) |
| HOGMANAY | Scots word for the last day of the year (8) |
| DECEASED | Last days of the year were relaxing no more |
| TIMIDEST | Least confident bird bypassing mass on certain days of the year (8) |
| CALENDAR | Table showing days of the year (8) |
| DYNAMIC | A lot of people in the police turn up full of energy |
| YOMKIPPUR | The holiest day of the year in Judaism, also called the Day of Atonement (3,6) |
| BOMBASTIC | A shortened cane attached to something blown up, full of hot air (9) |
| FIRST | New Year's Day is the - day of the year |
| TOTAL | Unqualified bunch turns up full of thanks (5) |
| RATES | Celebrity turning up full of energy charges |
| ANALEMMAS | Scale of the sun's declination for each day of the year, drawn across the torrid zone on an artificial terrestrial globe |
