| Text | Length |
| Station wagon rear door feature | 31 |
| Spring lock | 11 |
| Seize, with "onto" | 28 |
| Grasp, with "onto" | 28 |
| Glom (onto) | 11 |
| Gate securer | 12 |
| Gate mechanism | 14 |
| Gate closure | 12 |
| Gate attachment | 15 |
| Comprehend, with "on" | 31 |
| Closing mechanism | 17 |
| Closing device | 14 |
| Car seat-securing feature | 25 |
| Gate locks | 10 |
| Gate closers | 12 |
| Kind of kid | 11 |
| Door-opener | 11 |
| Springlock opener | 17 |
| Item on a tenant's ring | 27 |
| Behind schedule | 15 |
| Recent | 6 |
| Kind of show | 12 |
| Not on time | 11 |
| After the buzzer | 16 |
| Past due | 8 |
| After the bell | 14 |
| Past the deadline | 17 |
| After curfew | 12 |
| Type of edition | 15 |
| Not punctual | 12 |
| Not in time | 11 |
| "Better ___ than never" | 33 |
| Like George Apley | 17 |
| Behind time | 11 |
| After the deadline | 18 |
| Running behind | 14 |
| Behindhand | 10 |
| Kind of TV show | 15 |
| Delinquent | 10 |
| Type of shift | 13 |
| Recently deceased | 17 |
| Not at the expected time | 24 |
| Eleventh-hour | 13 |
| Deceased | 8 |
| Better than never? | 18 |
| Like an inveterate procrastinator | 33 |
| It's better than never | 26 |
| How procrastinators run | 23 |
| Accommodating to night owls | 27 |
| Word repeated before "show" | 37 |
| Well into the night | 19 |
| Subject to a library fine | 25 |
| Past one's bedtime | 22 |
| Not on schedule | 15 |
| Missing a deadline | 18 |
| Like some editions | 18 |
| Like some bloomers | 18 |
| Like a fashionable arrival | 26 |
| It's better than never? | 27 |
| How workaholics often work | 26 |
| Better than never | 17 |
| Arrival-board notation | 22 |
| After midnight, say | 19 |
| When repeated, like some shows | 30 |
| Until all hours | 15 |
| Stuck in traffic, say | 21 |
| Stressful way to run | 20 |
| Still not there | 15 |
| Recently departed | 17 |
| Pushing midnight, say | 21 |
| Past curfew | 11 |
| Off schedule | 12 |
| Not when expected | 17 |
| Night owl's time | 20 |
| Missing the deadline | 20 |
| Missing the boat, say | 21 |
| Kind of edition | 15 |
| Keeping everyone waiting | 24 |
| Held up, maybe | 14 |
| Ex- | 3 |
| After the whistle | 17 |
| "The ___ George Apley" | 32 |
| Word for Apley | 14 |
| Untimely | 8 |
| Toward the end | 14 |
| Ten minutes after the hour? | 27 |
| Subject to penalties, perhaps | 29 |
| Past midnight | 13 |
| Not prompt | 10 |
| Midnight, to some | 17 |
| Likely to miss the bus | 22 |
| Like some bill payments | 23 |
| Like Paton's phalarope | 26 |
| Like Letterman's show | 25 |
| Into the wee hours | 18 |
| In need of a hall pass, perhaps | 31 |
| Going on 2 in the morning | 25 |
| Going on 2 a.m. | 15 |
| Going on 1 a.m. | 15 |
| George Apley, for one | 21 |
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