| BELATED | Overdue, not before time (7) |
| OFLATE | Old fine, overdue, not long past (2,4) |
| OVERDUE | Time for the bowler - and not before time (7) |
| ISOLATE | Quarantine is over, not before time (7) |
| TABULATE | Catalogue banned, not before time (8) |
| AFTER | Son leaves seafront? It's not before time! (5) |
| REGULATE | Police, say, invading game - and certainly not before time |
| OBLATE | He died, not before time - squashed at the pole |
| BETTERLATETHANNEVER | Savagely threaten veteran with belt? Not before time |
| LATECOMER | He arrives but not before time (9) |
| BELATEDLY | Bat yelled out ? not before time (9) |
| LATE | Dead and not before time (4) |
| FASHIONABLYLATE | Attending party? Not before time, staying in (11,4) |
| REARLY | Bank protecting a river? Not before time these days! |
| PRETTYNEARLY | Almost attractive at first not before time |
| BEANO | Merrymaking in airline terminated in 1970s - not before time |
| ATLONGLAST | Snag at toll resolved - not before time! |
| AFTERTHOUGHT | Postscript comes to mind in the end? It's not before time! (12) |
| BEHINDTHECLOCK | Where, not before time, accounts may be kept (6,3,5) |
| EVICT | Empty The House of vice? It's not before time! (5) |
