| AMYL | Chemical modifier starts to alter many years later (4) |
| DUNGEON | Source of smell many years later discovered behind old prison |
| OAK | Acorn, many years later |
| AURA | Ambience starts to alter under respectable administration (4) |
| DRAT | Blast, the doctor starts to alter treatment (4) |
| SUEZ | Which great canal, completed in 1869, was built by the French engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps, but acquired by the British six years later? (4) |
| SOTO | Slugger Juan who turned down a $440 million contract with the Washington Nationals in 2022 in order to sign a $765 million contact with the New York Mets two years later |
| TRON | Classic sci-fi film with a sequel 28 years later |
| DAYS | 1969 single by The Kinks covered 20 years later by Kirsty MacColl |
| BLOB | Classic genre film from 1958 starring Steve McQueen, remade 30 years later. |
| SLAT | Bed frame support hidden in "years later" |
| GUMP | "Forrest ___" (Best Picture-winning 1994 film whose director and two main stars have reunited for a new movie 30 years later) |
| NICE | EU treaty rejected by the Irish electorate in 2001 and then accepted a year later. (4) |
| SOPH | Freshman, a year later, informally |
| TAG | Starts to alter grocery label |
| ARMOIRE | Starts to alter rich fabric in wardrobe (7) |
| PLASTERCAST | Places start to alter thing requiring moulding? (7,4) |
| ASTROTURF | Four start to alter an artificial surface (9) |
| MAMACASS | US singer who died at the age of 32 in July 1974 where four years later Keith Moon of The Who also died (4,4) |
| THOREAU | On July 4, 1845, he retreated to a cabin on a pond; nine years later he published a book about it |
