| ONTHEFACEOFIT | Where a clock's hands are, apparently |
| ATNOON | When all a clock's hands are straight up: 2 wds. |
| SEALEGS | Seal eggs are apparently what a sailor needs (3,4) |
| SEEM | Are apparently |
| NUMBERLESS | They are apparently fewer, although they cannot be counted |
| NOON | When two clock hands are up |
| CLOCKWISE | In the direction of a clock's hands (9) |
| STROKE | A beat of a heart; a hit of a ball in golf or tennis; a solidus or virgule; a pull of an oar; a sound of a clock's chime; or, a sudden sweep of genius or luck (6) |
| BEAT | The recurrent pulse, stroke or throb of a bird's wings, clock's hands, person's heart, maestro's baton, pheasant rouser's stick, police officer's feet or a timpanist's drumsticks (4) |
| SIXAM | Morning hour when the clock hands form a straight line |
| SIXISH | When the clock hands make a verical line, roughly |
| HAMMER | Tool used in forging; the striking part of a doorknocker or a clock's bell; a word for an accelerator pedal in motor racing; or, a gavel (6) |
| SIXO | ___'clock when the clock hands form a straight vertical line: 2 wds. |
| RESET | Change clock hands |
| RATES | A clock's gains or losses in a unit of time; classes into which ships were assigned; or, a property tax |
| SNOOZE | Word for a catnap, used to denote a button for dozing a clock's alarm (6) |
| DOT | One of the points appearing on a clock's face to mark the hour, hence its reference in a phrase meaning "precisely on time"; or, any other small round symbol, such as a full stop (3) |
| TWICE | How many times a clock's little hand goes around in a full day |
| PENDULUM | A weighted rod used to regulate a clock's works by the regularity of its motion (8) |
| TOCK | Half a clock's vocabulary |
