| SPACECAPSULE | Astronaut's quarters, in the early days |
| CABIN | Astronaut's quarters |
| TIVOLI | In the early days of cinema, picture theatres around the world were named after this Copenhagen amus |
| AVIATOR | The pilot of a plane, especially in the early days of flying (7) |
| PHONO | Lead-in to "graph," in the early days of audio recording |
| NOELE | What was the first name of Ms Gordon, who played Meg in the early days of Crossroads? (5) |
| MAPAI | Marxist-Zionist workers party in the early days of The State of Israel (Hebrew acronym) (5) |
| MAPAM | Marxist-Zionist workers party in the early days of The State of Israel (Hebrew acronym) (5) |
| MODEM | Computer accessory that was "dial-up" in the early days |
| GABY | In the early days of Neighbours, Rachel Blakely was ___ Willis |
| EMBRYO | Life, in the early days |
| IDES | Off-side in the early days (4) |
| CRUMB | How strange! In the early days, there was little bread |
| SCHLIEFFEN | ___ Plan, German military strategy in the early days of World War I (10) |
| TOBEGINWITH | In the early days we both relaxed drinking gin & It, but apart |
| AMOVEABLEFEAST | 'But this is how Paris was in the early days . . .' (1964) |
| TIRES | In the early days of cars, what were white, later coloured with carbon black? (5) |
| STEPHANDORFF | World Trade Center, Blade and Cecil B. DeMented are movies in which this US actor has appeared; he also played the role of Stuart Sutcliffe in Backbeat, the 1994 film about the early days of The Beatl |
| BACKBEAT | 1994 drama about the early days of The Beatles in Hamburg (8) |
| YOUTH | Stage of adolescence between childhood and maturity; juveniles collectively; or, the early days in the development of something (5) |
