| OLIGOCENE | Ancient period, mostly historic and no ice age rocks (not one) (9) |
| PINKGIN | Cocktail with bitters and no ice |
| SUBTOTAL | Blast out rocks - not the full amount (8) |
| GREENALGAE | New Age rock supports metal plants (5,5) |
| LEICESTER | City built from rocks during the French period mostly |
| SEDENTARY | I'm avoiding one sort of rock, not wanting to dance about |
| GOLDENAGE | Pledge to preserve ancient period of prosperity (6,3) |
| TETEATETE | Rock not completely protecting tit or chat (4-1-4) |
| LIMESTONE | Rock, not slime, converted energy |
| AUSTERE | American with period mostly in Austria and Spain that's severely simple (7) |
| HERZEGOVINA | Historic and modern region of SE Europe whose chief and largest city is Mostar (11) |
| BLESSTHISHOUSE | Song period mostly covered by book - inferior revised thesis (5,4,5) |
| FOLLIES | Goes overseas often to take in a lot of historic and curious buildings |
| BRETAGNE | French name for the historic and modern region of Brittany (8) |
| PETRA | Historic and archaeological city in southern Jordan (5) |
| PROVENCE | Historic and cultural region of southern France whose largest city is Marseille (8) |
| IRONAGE | Ancient period in the development of mankind (4,3) |
| ICEAGE | The ancient period when the Northern Hemisphere was covered with glaciers (3,3) |
| EOCENE | Ancient period once wasted in extremes of espionage (6) |
| XERIC | Dry period mostly, eleven Celsius outside |
