| INTHENICKOFTIME | Jailed in relation to prison sentence, almost too late |
| OVERTIME | Extra work is additional to prison sentence (8) |
| TIMEANDAHALF | Fifty per cent added to prison sentence as payment for extra hours worked! (4,3,1,4) |
| HIGHTIME | Almost too late to strike? Good heavens! Commencing in one minute, exclusively (4,4) |
| CUT | Was almost too late to play a subtle snooker shot (3,2,4) |
| ITFINE | Was almost too late to play a subtle snooker shot (3,2,4) |
| NOTTINGHILLGATE | Almost too late ___ lightning's destroyed part of London (7,4,4) |
| ELEVENTHHOUR | Team travel consumes hours - it's almost too late |
| THEELEVENTHHOUR | Almost too late, yet again |
| ELEVENTH | At the ___ hour, almost too late |
| OVERDUB | Add one's voice again, almost too late - bravo! (7) |
| ATTHEELEVENTHHOUR | Almost too late when 48, nearly? |
| LASTMINUTE | Endure, tiny, almost too late |
| ATTHELASTSECOND | Almost too late |
| DOWNTOTHEMINUTE | Almost too late, again! |
| PUSSYRIOT | Protest music rock band in the news in 2012 when two of its members were jailed in Russia |
| CHELSEAMANNING | WikiLeaks whistleblower jailed in 2019 for refusing to testify against Julian Assange |
| INSIDE | Jailed, in the slammer (6) |
| DANNYWICKS | Knights prop jailed in 2011 for drug trafficking (5,5) |
| MALAWI | Adult was at first jailed in one African nation or another (6) |
