| ONTHEFACEOFIT | Where a clock's hands are, as it would appear |
| ATNOON | When all a clock's hands are straight up: 2 wds. |
| SOITSEEMS | Some sites needing re-development, as it would appear (2,2,5) |
| NOON | When a clock's hands meet |
| 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) |
| ROADTEST | An examination of it as it would be used in real life would be the way to assess it |
| STICKOUT | It may well be obvious, as it would be quite conspicuous (5,3) |
| EVIDENTLY | As it would seem (9) |
| 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 |
| SIXO | ___'clock when the clock hands form a straight vertical line: 2 wds. |
| SIXISH | When the clock hands make a verical line, roughly |
| OBESE | So to a bee it would appear to be too fat? (5) |
| FOURPENNYONES | It would appear that such hits are cheap to produce! (9,4) |
| SEEM | There are two ways to get them, it would appear (4) |
| EGGHEADS | Brainboxes that are hard to crack? No quite easily it would appear (8) |
| STOLID | It would appear that I'd lost it yet remained unemotional (6) |
| BLOOMED | Flowered, it would appear, in a plot in the garden (7) |
| 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) |