| POSTMERIDIEM | It's late in the day for British prime minister in short? (4,8) |
| IRONLADY | Name coined by the Soviet magazine Red Star for British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (4,4) |
| EVEN | It's a bit late in the day for the poet to be flat (4) |
| EVENING | Still in Government, though it's late in the day (7) |
| TOPMAST | In elevated post, it's late in the day to tuck into some breakfast |
| SUNSET | For a heavenly body's space visitant, it's late in the day |
| EVENTIDE | Contest the writer would finally leave: it's late in the day |
| EVE | Bit late in the day for this early bird (3) |
| GMA | ABC TV show that airs early in the day, for short |
| SUNDOWN | Boy sounds sad - it's late in the day (7) |
| EEN | Late in the day, for poets |
| MOURN | Early in the day for poet, say, to lament? |
| IREMEMBERYOU | A big hit back in the day for Frank Ifield (1,8,3) |
| SECOND | A little time in the day for turtle doves (6) |
| SOON | It's a bit early in the day for a poet (4) |
| NUMBERTEN | The official home of the British prime minister in Downing Street (6,3) |
| CHAMBERLAIN | British prime minister in the late 1930s (11) |
| LORDDERBY | He had three brief periods as British prime minister in the latter half of the 19th century, never with a majority government (4,5) |
| CANNING | George, who served the shortest time as a British prime minister in 1827 (7) |
| CHEQUERS | Country home of the British prime minister in Buckinghamshire since 1921 (8) |
