The Australian skipper, who retired hurt on 60 on the opening day with lower back trouble, returned to the crease to notch his 28th Test hundred on the rain-disrupted second day.
Clarke brought up his ton with a single off his pads, taking off his helmet and kissing its emblem in celebration, to the acclaim of the Adelaide Oval crowd in the wake of the Phillip Hughes tragedy.
The captain played a leading role in the days after Hughes's death, in which he read a tearful tribute at the funeral and was one of the pallbearers.
Test team-mate Hughes died after he was struck by a bouncer in a domestic game late last month.
Clarke, who needed painkillers to get to the wicket on Wednesday, reached his three figures off 127 balls with 15 boundaries.
He continued his great scoring record at Adelaide Oval with five hundreds and two double-centuries, coming into this Test match with a 98.38 ground average.
It was the third century of the Australian first innings, with Steve Smith getting his fifth Test ton and David Warner hitting 145 on the first day.
After tea, Australia were 473/6 with Smith on 142 and Clarke 109 when rain stopped play.
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