| BABYBOOMER | A person born during the years following the Second World War (4,6) |
| BOOMER | Baby ___, name given to the generation of people born in the years following the Second World War (6) |
| MILLENNIAL | A person born between the early 1980s and the late-1990s (10) |
| INAUGURATION | --- Day, the day on which a president of the US is formally placed in office, on January 20 of the year following the election (12) |
| REGISTRATION | 11d and first of the year following the sign in (12) |
| POLARIZATION | M-W's word of the year, following the country's heated 2024 election |
| GOLDENAGEOFTV | Name applied to both a period following the Second World War and a period in the early twenty-first century |
| MARSHALLPLAN | The US-sponsored European Recovery Program following the Second World War (8,4) |
| YPRES | Town in Belgium near Passendale that was the scene of a series of battles over four years following the Race to the Sea (5) |
| ERA | Reconstruction ___ (the 11 years following the US Civil War) |
| CLEMENTATTLEE | UK prime minister following the Second World War (7,6) |
| MAZE | Most of its prisoners were released in the two years following the Belfast Agreement (4) |
| BUSHBABY | Primate, one born during the last US President's time in office? (4-4) |
| UPBEATGENERATION | *People born during the Era of Good Feelings? |
| LEOS | People born during the last week of July astrologically |
| QUAD | One of four babies born during the same birth (4) |
| AQUARIAN | According to the zodiac, a person born under the sign of the Water Bearer (8) |
| AGEONE | The year following a first birthday |
| NOBEL | Chemist born during the Christmas period (5) |
| NEE | Born during the Byzantine Empire (3) |