| TELEOLOGY | Branch of causality that comes from the Greek for "study of the end" |
| ESCHATOLOGY | Yoga clothes for the study of the end of time (11) |
| YESHIVA | Jewish school for study of the Talmud and the Torah (7) |
| GERONTOLOGY | Try on Google, say, for study of the elderly (11) |
| CIVIL | The fall of Richmond was a critical event that marked the beginnning of the end of the ___ War |
| MYTHOLOGY | Setter's first three thoughts recorded here at the end of the day, for study of local heroes |
| VARGASLLOSA | Nobel Prize-winning (2010) Peruvian author of novels including La casa verde (1966; The Green House) and La guerra del fin del mundo (1981; The War of the End of the World) (6,5) |
| DEATHKNELL | Sign of the end. The end? All 'end of clock' nonsense (5,5) |
| ANOTHERDAY | End of the end of "Gone With the Wind" |
| HOOF | Horny covering of the end of the foot of a horse (4) |
| KARMA | Buddhist principle of causality |
| USA | States of causality? (1,1,1) |
| BREAD | Moolah ... or the makeup of the ends of the answers to the starred clues |
| AEROSOL | Common household dispenser, the name of which comes from the Greek for air and Latin for sun (7) |
| XYLOPHONE | The name of which musical instrument comes from the Greek for "wooden sound"? (9) |
| SEMANTICS | Reputations built up on signs of approval heard for study of meaning (9) |
| ROCKETRY | Stone alien on railway for study of propulsion of missiles (8) |
| WHOVILLE | Town targeted by the Grinch, and an apt description of the ends of the answers to the starred clues? |
| ITEMISE | Inventory is the thing hiding the beginning of the end (7) |
| REMEMBRANCEDAY | Anniversary of the end of the First World War (11,3) |
