| INTEN | "___ minutes I'll be late for the door" ("Old Time Rock and Roll" line) |
| TOTHE | I don't want to be late for the match (3,2,2,3,6,2,4) |
| GETME | I don't want to be late for the match (3,2,2,3,6,2,4) |
| CHURCH | I don't want to be late for the match (3,2,2,3,6,2,4) |
| ONTIME | I don't want to be late for the match (3,2,2,3,6,2,4) |
| OPENAIR | Out of doors, old songwriter may do so |
| LATCH | Some little devil at church makes a bolt for the door (5) |
| ELEVEN | _ _ _ _ _ _ Minutes Late - book by journalist and author Matthew Engel (6) |
| LAPORTE | Galveston Bay city whose name is French for "the door" |
| SIXTY | An American football match lasts for ___ minutes. (5) |
| NOTTO | "Wait a minute. I'll decide with whom my wife's going to have dinner and whom she's going to kill!" exclaimed Jack Benny in the 1942 comedy classic, To Be Or ... Be (3,2) |
| ILLUMINATE | In a minute I'll find switch for light |
| SEGER | "Old Time Rock and Roll" singer |
| BOBSEGER | *"Old Time Rock and Roll" singer |
| PAULMCCARTNEY | Two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, with the Beatles and for his solo career: 2 wds. |
| JIMMYPAGE | Two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, with the Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin: 2 wds. |
| NEILYOUNG | Two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, with Buffalo Springfield and for his solo career: 2 wds. |
| OLD | "___ Time Rock and Roll" by Bob Seger |
| ERIC | Three-time Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Clapton |
| ERICCLAPTON | Three-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee |
