| MIDNIGHTOIL | Work into the early hours (4,3,8,3) |
| BURNTHE | Work into the early hours (4,3,8,3) |
| DISCONSOLATE | Sad record playing into the early hours? |
| NIGHTCLUB | Venue open into the early hours (9) |
| TAMAGOTCHI | Its inventors won an Ig Nobel prize "for diverting millions of person-hours of work into the husbandry of virtual pets" |
| PEOPLE | A football legend took short work into the community (6) |
| WEE | Like the early hours of the morning |
| EMMA | The girl, in the early hours, got me up (4) |
| THORA | She puts a bit of work into the making of a hat (5) |
| FINDSTIME | Works into the schedule, with "for" |
| TAWNYOWL | Bird with a familiar call at night and in the early hours of the morning (5,3) |
| PREDAWN | Socialist has to pop round in the early hours (7) |
| MILKTRAIN | One tram link developed for transport in the early hours |
| MOURNING | Weeds are universal in the early hours |
| NIGHTPORTER | Caretaker working through the early hours (5-6) |
| MIDNIGHT | Thing appears dim in the early hours (8) |
| PUMA | Cat rolling up in the early hours, awake (4) |
| PLATEAU | Even out till the early hours, apostle briefly pops round |
| NIGHTSHIFT | Group of workers operating in the early hours (5,5) |
| TOPOFTHEMORNING | Irish greeting in the early hours (3,2,3,7) |
