| FIREALARMS | Middle-of-the-night eye-openers |
| CHESTNUT | A castaneous tree; one of its buckeyes, chinquapins or conkers; an ergot or "night eye" on a horse's leg; an auburn or sorrel coat of such an equid; or, a stale old joke (8) |
| INGST | On 3rd October, in the middle of the night, a storm devastated the front of a shop in our small hamlet near Aust (5) |
| WETDREAM | Cause of a bust in the middle of the night? |
| RIELS | Looking back, the French in the middle of the night heard from Cambodian capital (5) |
| BEDTIMEPRAYER | God, I hope I wake up in the middle of the night for act of contrition (7,6) |
| FALSEALARM | What made you jump out of bed in the middle of the night? (5,5) |
| JLO | She said, "I'm like a little roach. You think I'm gone for good ... But then you go to get a glass of water in the middle of the night, and boom! I got an album." |
| NOISES | They might lure a horror-movie heroine to the basement in the middle of the night |
| HEARTOFDARKNESS | Work in the middle of the night |
| OUTING | Excursion getting away in the middle of the night |
| BUTCHERING | Killing a tradesman in the middle of the night (10) |
| CARALARM | One may go off in the middle of the night |
| VIEWING | Watching 'Panorama' in the middle of the night! (7) |
| EYES | They're usually closed in the middle of the night |
| LUGER | Firearm rule broken about the middle of the night (5) |
| LATTES | Eye-openers, of a sort |
| RAVENING | Blackbird in the middle of the night gong hungrily after prey (8) |
| FOURAM | Time that's either middle of the night or early in the morning, depending on your sleep schedule |
| URGENT | "That's why you call me in the middle of the night" Foreigner song |
