| SUNUP | Start of a day |
| SUN | Start of a day? |
| JAN | Abbr. at the start of a day planner |
| DAWNRAID | Huge stock purchase at the start of a day's trading |
| SCORCHER | Word for a hot sizzler of a day; something impressive, such as a fast "screamer" of a ball/shot; one who drives or cycles extremely rapidly; or, something severe or caustic (8) |
| SCOFF | Word, from "quarter of a day", hence "meal", for food; a greedy gobble, gulp or guzzle of said grub; or, a gibe (5) |
| CLOSINGPRICE | Value of a stockmarket share at the end of a day (7,5) |
| HR | A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day |
| CARR | Author of A Day in Summer, How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the FA Cup and What Hetty Did whose A Month in the Country was adapted into a film (4) |
| HOUR | A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day (4) |
| SUZUKA | Far Eastern circuit famous for a race that lasts for a third of a day. (6) |
| FOUR | Alluded to in a famous speech delivered by Sir Winston Churchill in 1940, a 24th part of a day (4) |
| NIGHTWATCHMAN | In cricket, a batsman sent in when a wicket has fallen near the end of a day's play (5,8) |
| EVENING | The close of a day; a word used in the first ever 2 dn |
| MIN | 1/60th of 1/24th of a day, briefly |
| FOURHRS | Remarkable showing on a baseball box score (or 1/6 of a day) |
| DYNAMO | Only one-word anagram of a day of the week |
| PINDAR | "Creatures of a day, what is a man?" poet |
| POLITICALASYLUM | Refuge for dissident or a description of a day in Parliament? (9,6) |
| STUMPS | Tortillons used for softening hard edges or blending tones in works of art created with chalk, charcoal, Conte crayon, pastel or pencil; or, the end of a day's play in cricket (6) |
