| THECASTLE | It begins, 'It was late in the evening when K. arrived.' |
| SWEETADELINE | "In the evening when I sit alone a-dreaming..." |
| SUNDOWN | Part of the evening when daylight fades (7) |
| 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" |
| OMOO | Book that begins "It was the middle of a bright tropical afternoon that we made good our escape from |
| RAJQUARTET | "The Jewel in the Crown" begins it, with "The" |
| WEE | In the ___ hours (late in the evening) |
| 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 |
| SCARYSTORY | One might begin "It was a dark and stormy night ..." |
| 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 |
| RAISETHESUBJECT | According to Bagehot the Queen is allowed to do this with the PM when helping him up off the floor (5,3,7) |
| ASQUITH | British PM when the first Old-Age Pension Act was introduced (7) |
| PEEL | British PM when the 1844 Factory Act was passed into law (4) |
