| SAKES | 'For heaven and the future's ___': Frost |
| ORANGE | "The future's bright - the future's ___" - slogan of defunct mobile phone company |
| AINT | "The future __ what it used to be": Yogi Berra |
| ITCOMESSOONENOUGH | "I never think of the future. ____" (Albert Einstein) |
| KINGSLEY | Queen Victoria's personal chaplain and the future Edward VII's private tutor, who wrote The Water-Babies and Westward Ho!, the latter inspiring the name of a seaside village in Devon (8) |
| EARTH | "In the beginning God created the heaven and the ___" |
| ISNOW | "The future ___" |
| JANUS | Depicted with two faces so as to look to the past and the future, an ancient Roman god of beginnings, doorways and the New Year (5) |
| JANUARY | With a "wolf" full moon and symbols including garnet, carnation and snowdrop, month named after a god of doorways whose two faces look to the past and the future (7) |
| ALLAH | "Light of the heavens and the earth," per the Koran |
| DENNISPOTTER | Writer of the TV dramas Pennies From Heaven and The Singing Detective (6,6) |
| ASSANGE | Author of the 2012 book "Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet" |
| POTTER | Dennis, dramatist noted for TV serials Pennies From Heaven and The Singing Detective (6) |
| PAST | Companion of the present and the future |
| CAELUM | Latin word for "heaven, sky" and unconnectedly "chisel", hence given as the name of the Chisel constellation (6) |
| HAM | Town of the Somme department of France - Joan of Arc and the future Napoleon III were two notable detainees in its fortress (3) |
| BIEL | Jessica _, actress whose TV shows include 7th Heaven and The Sinner (4) |
| HAGGAI | Old Testament book whose 'I will shake the heavens, and the earth' (2:6) is quoted in Handel's Messiah (1742) (6) |
| ROBOTS | Subject in Aaron Benanav's "Automation and the Future of Work" |
| DISH | To defeat hell, the first thing for heaven (4) |