| HISTORICAL | Belonging to or set in the past (10) |
| DORSAL | Belonging to or on or near the back or upper surface of an animal or organ or part. |
| HISTORICALNOVEL | Literary work set in the past (10,5) |
| CUTANEOUS | Belonging to or relating to the skin (9) |
| OLDEN | Model set in the past, maybe (5,5) |
| INSET | Let in or set in (5) |
| ACTUATE | To trigger, or set in motion (7) |
| ANACHRONISTIC | How something wrongly set in the past might be described (13) |
| PERIODPIECE | Work of art set in the past (6,5) |
| TIMES | Model set in the past, maybe (5) |
| COSTUMEDRAMA | Sad commuter staged a theatrical production set in the past (7,5) |
| DUCAL | Of or belonging to or suitable for a duke. |
| OUR | Belonging to or associated in some way with us (3) |
| NAVAL | Belonging to or uesd in a navy (5) |
| EPISCOPAL | Belonging to, or vested in, bishops (9) |
| STUBBORN | Intractable, or set in one's ways (8) |
| IVORY | It's white, or set in something green (5) |
| ADAMANT | Resolute, inexorable, or set in stone (7) |
| FIX | Repair, or set in place (3) |
| PROSAIC | Either ordinary or, set in aspic, extraordinary (7) |
