| APPENDAGES | A very quiet death, and a very long time in addition (10) |
| TOAD | "X-Men" villain with great leaping ability and a very long tongue |
| IMPENDING | This person's quiet death about to happen (9) |
| RHINOCEROS | A large mammal of South East Asia and Africa, with one or two horns on its nose and a very thick skin (10) |
| WHITENOISE | Don DeLillo novel whose original dust jacket touted it as "a brilliant story about death and the fear of death . . . a comedy, of course" |
| OLD | Turtles and tortoises can live a very long time (In fact, a giant Galapagos tortoise named Harriet lived to be 175 years ___) |
| LASTTYCOON | F Scott Fitzgerald's final novel, The _ _, finished by a friend after his death and published in 1941 (4,6) |
| REPUTATION | "One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good ___": Oscar Wilde (10) |
| SAGES | Wise men spending a very long time in a ship (5) |
| AGREE | About to get in for a very long time, in order to consent (5) |
| ENDANGERED | At risk of death and really annoyed! (10) |
| ADULTERESS | “And leave me to this miserable death. / And then they called me foul ____” (Shakespeare) |
| VEGA | Star, for a very long time, in the ascendant (4) |
| NICEONE | A very long time in resort ? I like that! (4,3) |
| AGES | A very long time in some village school (4) |
| AGESAGO | A very long time in the past: 2 wds. |
| ETERNITY | It goes on for a very long time. In fact, it's for ever (8) |
| SWANAGE | Bird a very long time in southern seaside town (7) |
| PASSAGE | Spend a very long time in the corridor |
| BLUDGEON | British lord, grand, a very long time in club (8) |
