| THECASTLE | It begins, "It was late in the evening when K. arrived." |
| PARROT | Polly's a bird that was late in a Monty Python sketch (6) |
| ENYA | Name that becomes an African country when K is added to the front |
| SWEETADELINE | "In the evening when I sit alone a-dreaming..." |
| ANNABELLEE | Classic poem that begins "It was many and many a year ago / In a kingdom by the sea" |
| ICRIED | Patti Page song that begins "It was winter when you told me you were leaving" |
| SUNDOWN | Part of the evening when daylight fades (7) |
| OMOO | Book that begins "It was the middle of a bright tropical afternoon that we made good our escape from |
| WEE | In the ___ hours (late in the evening) |
| RAJQUARTET | "The Jewel in the Crown" begins it, with "The" |
| ITINA | Rock bio that begins "It is a sun-dappled late-summer morning in Nut Bush, Tennessee, sometime in the early forties." |
| SCARYSTORY | One might begin "It was a dark and stormy night ..." |
| BEOWULF | In the translation of which epic poem, depicting the battle with Grendel's mother, did Seamus Heaney draw from the dialect of his father's family and begin it with the sentence "So."? (7) |
| SUPPER | It may be taken late in the evening |
| ATTENDANCE | Late in the evening, move with the music crowd |
| ATTENUATED | Late in the evening, a duet faltered and weakened (10) |
| ATTENUATE | Late in the evening we hear you dined, wanting to get thin |
| ATTENDING | Showing up late in the evening perhaps, lot of noise generated at first (9) |
| ATTEND | Turn up quite late in the evening, say, with daughter |
| SWEETDREAMS | Saccharine aspirations communicated late in the evening |
