| EHEUFUGACES | A Latin expression of regret at the passage of time, as Horace wrote (4,7) |
| MEMENTOMORI | Metronome I'm activating - it hints at the passage of time |
| DIMIDIUM | Half, as Horace valued Virgil’s share in his own soul (Carmina 1.3.8) |
| FLUE | Listener took flight at the passage for air release |
| ASICS | Shoe company whose name is an acronym for a Latin expression about health in mind and body |
| MEACULPA | A Latin expression acknowledging one's guilt (3,5) |
| ERRATUM | Slip in a Latin expression |
| LATIN | Language in which Virgil and Horace wrote their works (5) |
| ODES | Horace wrote many |
| IMMORTALITY | Theorist's end is to stop wrong, transcending the passage of time (11) |
| GLORIAPATRI | Latin expression meaning "glory to the Father" (6,5) |
| INDUECOURSE | After a normal passage of time (2,3,6) |
| SPAN | Distance between the tips of one's thumb and little finger; the wingspread of an aircraft or bird; a stretch of time, as in concentration or life etc; or, the arch of a bridge (4) |
| LAPSE | From "glide, slip", a word for a decline in standards; an error; a failure in attention or memory; a moral fall; the passage of time; or, a stumble (5) |
| FLIGHT | A journey through the air; a flock or body of airborne arrows, birds, insects etc; the swift passage of time; or, a wandering of imagination or fancy (6) |
| SAND | Used to measure the passage of time in an hourglass, fine grains of quartz and other minerals forming a major constituent of coastal dunes, seashores, deserts and river beds (4) |
| BANISTERS | Railings of stairs bent out of place with the passage of time (9) |
| RUSINURBE | Latin expression meaning the creation of an illusion of the countryside in a city (3,2,4) |
| AGE | The end of the passage of time? (3) |
| NEWSREELS | Things employed to show the passage of time a la "Citizen Kane" |