Possible Clues:

• Quartet X 3
• Floral complement on each side of an Oreo
• Not entirely properly stopping television finally before midnight
• Number of days in present period
• Hour before one
• Two loveless mischief-makers shortly appearing in middle of the day?
• Number (of star signs, for example)
• Noon temperature fifty-five, in short
• Common jury count
• Number in a dozen