| LIAO | Chinese dynasty of a thousand years ago |
| QIN | First dynasty of a united Chinese empire |
| SANDY | Like the shores of a thousand years ago (5) |
| SUNG | Chinese dynasty a thousand years ago |
| VIKINGSEAFARER | Leif Ericsson, for example, who explored the ancient-eastcoast-of-canada region known as Vinland a thousand years ago: 2 wds. |
| THEE | You, a thousand years ago |
| REICH | Third of a thousand years? It was twelve |
| MILLENNIA | Anniversaries of a thousand years (9) |
| MILLENNIUM | Period of a thousand years. |
| GUIDINGSTAR | Compass, a few thousand years ago |
| DCI | 601, a few thousand years ago |
| CHILIAD | From Late Latin for "a thousand years", a word for a millennium; or, the aggregate of 1,000 things (7) |
| VIKINGSETTLEMENT | The Newfoundland attraction at #97-Across ...a thousand years ago: 2 wds. |
| VIKING | L'Anse aux Meadows inhabitant 1000 years ago |
| YONKS | A thousand years ultimately after that - a long time |
| KYOTO | Capital of Japan for more than a thousand years |
| APACHE | An indigenous American people who migrated from Canada to the southwestern US over 1000 years ago (6 |
| MIDDLEAGESPREAD | Typical weight gain between 500 and 1000 years ago, before the present era |
| BYZANTINE | Name for the eastern half of the Roman Empire, which survived for a thousand years after the western half had crumbled into various feudal kingdoms; it finally fell to Ottoman Turkish forces in 1453. |
| SOPHIA | Building in Istanbul that was the largest cathedral in the world for nearly a thousand years until the completion of the Seville Cathedral in 1520 |
