| TARRY | Hang around a sailor from the last century |
| LATCHETS | Shoelaces from the last century (8) |
| SPRY | Active bookie from the last century |
| ABLESEAMAN | A lamb seen jumping around a sailor (4,6) |
| QATAR | Question a sailor from the country (5) |
| LASCAR | That rascal goes out with a sailor from the Orient (6) |
| INAMORATA | Lover shortly meeting a sailor from the East |
| QATARI | TV programme about a sailor from the Middle East (6) |
| SOLAR | Form of power from the sun that became more familiar over the last century, ... energy |
| ARALSEA | A lake in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, east of the Caspian Sea, much reduced in size over the last century (4,3) |
| SENTRY | A watchman transmitted by the last century |
| CENT | Small change in the US, observed in the last century (4) |
| TWENTIES | In the last century, the decade was said to be roaring |
| THEVIRGINIANS | Novel by William Makepeace Thackeray subtitled A Tale of the Last Century (3,10) |
| SARAJEVO | Bosnia and Herzegovina city that was in a state of conflict at both ends of the last century |
| ICI | Imperial Chemical Industries - known by gardeners for its garden chemical products in the latter part of the last century (1,1,1) |
| RAVIOLI | Filled pasta dish we became more familiar with as culinary horizons expanded a little over the last century |
| TWENTIETH | The last century was such |
| NUREYEV | Soviet ballet dancer of the last century (7) |
| THEGREYNINETIES | That consistently overcast decade of the last century, maybe? |
