| Registered one's arrival at work | 36 |
| Began the shift | 15 |
| A railbird | 10 |
| 1995 Spike Lee movie | 20 |
| Start the workday | 17 |
| Punch one's timecard | 24 |
| Leaving work | 12 |
| Knock out Superman? | 19 |
| Seth Thomas, for one | 20 |
| Seth Thomas was one | 19 |
| Artisan with time on his hands | 30 |
| Committee head's timepiece? | 31 |
| Leave work, maybe | 17 |
| Punch out the clown from "It"? | 40 |
| Super-choosy about timepieces? | 30 |
| Nightstand item | 15 |
| Item on a nightstand | 20 |
| Item on a bedside table | 23 |
| Item found on a nightstand | 26 |
| It'll get you out of bed | 28 |
| Dual-purpose bedroom device | 27 |
| Officially starts work | 22 |
| Leaves work, perhaps | 20 |
| Measure pulses | 14 |
| Punch a smart aleck in the face? | 32 |
| Honey Bunches of Oafs, e.g.? | 28 |
| Boorlike | 8 |
| Full of lumps | 13 |
| Like plowed but unharrowed acres | 32 |
| Undoing the hoeing? | 19 |
| Clumsy shoe | 11 |
| Big boot | 8 |
| "Big Pile of Dirt"? [Charles Frazier] | 47 |
| Perspiration on a blockhead? | 28 |
| Overfill airplane areas? | 24 |
| Appalachian entertainment | 25 |
| Stamp act? | 10 |
| Lively rhythmic entertainer | 27 |
| Obstructing object | 18 |
| Wooden-shoe folk dance | 22 |
| Hinder short-wave transmission? | 31 |
| Get blocked | 11 |
| Become full of hair, perhaps | 28 |
| Enamel work | 11 |
| Monastery or convent | 20 |
| Religious site | 14 |
| Walk in a certain order? | 24 |
| Religious place of seclusion | 28 |
| Place of seclusion | 18 |
| Part of many a convent | 22 |
| Covered colonnaded passage | 26 |
| Brother's home | 18 |
| Seclusive | 9 |
| Places to change a habit? | 25 |
| Monastery areas | 15 |
| Walks noisily | 13 |
| Hardly tiptoes | 14 |
| Biological plant group: Var. | 28 |
| Like some cell growth | 21 |
| Fight that's evenly matched? | 32 |
| Conflict between truly identical twins? | 39 |
| Kangaroo from a lab? | 20 |
| Certain geneticist | 18 |
| Worker with DNA, perhaps | 24 |
| Worker with DNA, at times | 25 |
| Plant geneticist, at times | 26 |
| Pioneering geneticist | 21 |
| Spasmodic, as a muscle | 22 |
| Controversial science project | 29 |
| Asexual reproduction | 20 |
| "Orphan Black" subject | 32 |
| Dull impact sound | 17 |
| Dull, plodding sound | 20 |
| Dull, hollow sound | 18 |
| Sounds of heavy objects striking each other | 43 |
| Dull impact sounds | 18 |
| Crime-based cable channel | 25 |
| Screen star George | 18 |
| Ocean player, three times | 25 |
| Her songs don't "cloy one" | 40 |
| 2006 Best Supporting Actor | 26 |
| "Up in the Air" star | 30 |
| "The Lux Show" star of 50's TV | 44 |
| "The Good German" star | 32 |
| "Syriana" star | 24 |
| "Good Night, and Good Luck" director George | 53 |
| "Good Night, and Good Luck" director | 46 |
| "ER" actor George | 27 |
| Music for actor George? | 23 |
| "Come on-a My House" and "Hey There"? | 57 |
| Hoof: Scot. | 11 |
| Cork-removal sound | 18 |
| Satan, to Scots | 15 |
| Hoofed it? | 10 |
| Hoofbeat noise | 14 |
| Breath mint brand since 1951 | 28 |
| Actress Leachman | 16 |
| She played Phyllis on TV | 24 |
| She had brief roles as Phyllis on "Rhoda" and Rhoda on "Dr. Kildare" | 88 |
| Oscar winner Leachman | 21 |