| POTROAST | Poor Root, a prisoner of history, stewing for hours on 10 (3,5) |
| OCTOBER | Judge leaves objector stewing for a month |
| PENDULUM | The _ _ _ _, short story by Edgar Allan Poe about the torture of a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition (3,3,3,8) |
| SEAPOWER | A prisoner of war captured by visionary's nation with great naval strength (3,5) |
| ANCESTOR | Forebear a prisoner of France's torment? (8) |
| GERONIMO | Renowned 19th-century Apache leader who died as a prisoner of war in 1909 (8) |
| SCAMMONY | A twining Asian convolvulus plant from whose roots a purgative juice is derived |
| DOGVILLE | 1WT: '03 drama w/ Nicole Kidman & a large cast acting for 3 hours on a huge stage, w/ no sets (!). |
| RACE | A ginger root; a class of wine; a division of humankind; an onward rush; a rapid current of water; a millrun; or, a contest in speed or getting ahead (4) |
| DOGWATCH | Follow timepiece for two hours on duty (8) |
| DAYLEWIS | Poet laureate once twenty-four hours on Scottish isle |
| TIMESUCK | Activity it's easy to waste hours on |
| SUNKEN | A mistletoe root; a US word for a doughnut; an unbuoyant person or thing, such as a weight; or, part of fishing-tackle that, with "hook" and "line", is referenced in a phrase used to mean "completely" |
| END | For hours on ___ (for a long time) |
| CAFES | Places one can get a latte and hang out for hours on their laptop |
| SLIP | Part of a plant (sometimes a root, a leaf or a bud) removed to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting! (4) |
| HENHUSSY | Interfering male, man given hour on American ship in New York |
| TVSET | It may be stared at for hours on end |
| LAYER | A shoot/branch bent down to take root; a thickness of butter, jam etc spread over a surface; or, a stratum (5) |
| FREQUENCY | With a "crowded, densely packed, stuffed" ancient Roman root, a word used to denote commonness, constancy, periodicity, repetition, a broadcast waveband and the rate per second of a wave's vibration, |
