| HAGS | 'How now, you secret, black, and midnight __!' |
| MIDNIGHT | Macbeth's "secret, black and --- hags" |
| PRITCHETT | Author born above a toyshop who wrote the story collection You Make Your Own Life and the memoirs A Cab at the Door and Midnight Oil (9) |
| PROTEM | Routine in between noon and midnight for now (3,3) |
| BLACKS | Jet and midnight, e.g. |
| DUSTINHOFFMAN | Star of Rain Man and Midnight Cowboy (6,7) |
| SIXPM | Halfway between noon and midnight |
| MITIGATE | Temper revealed by partner spanning time between eleven and midnight? |
| PM | (post meridien) between noon and midnight |
| DORIS | Pillow Talk and Midnight Lace star, ___ Day |
| DELPY | Julie, before sunrise, sunset and midnight (5) |
| LYALL | Gavin ?, author of novels Honourable Intentions and Midnight Plus One |
| SIX | Halfway between noon and midnight |
| PMS | Times between noon and midnight: Abbr. |
| ZONES | Sunlight, twilight, and midnight, in the ocean |
| ARAT | "How now? ___?": Hamlet, before mistakenly slaying Polonius |
| DIPHTHONG | What's common sounding in 'How now brown cow'? (9) |
| STEPTOTHEREAR | Song from "How Now, Dow Jones" |
| GREENGREENGRASS | 'How now, brown cow' grazing area |
| BROWNCOW | "How now, ___ ?" (kids' rhyme) (5,3) |
