| TRIASSIC | First and shortest geological period of the Mesozoic Era (8) |
| CAMBRIAN | The first geological period of the Palaeozoic era, during which marine invertebrates flourished (8) |
| JURASSIC | Period of geological time, the middle period of the Mesozoic era (8) |
| DINOSAUR | Fossil reptile of the Mesozoic era (8) |
| CRETACEOUS | The ___ period was the last period of the Mesozoic era, between the Jurassic and Tertiary periods |
| PHILEMON | Last and shortest of the Pauline epistles in the New Testament, addressed to the owner of slave Onesimus (8) |
| DECEMBER | Symbolised by narcissus, holly and turquoise, month containing the winter solstice and shortest day (8) |
| TETHYS | Ocean that existed between the continents of Gondwana and Laurasia during much of the Mesozoic era |
| PREHUMAN | Like the Mesozoic Era |
| PLESIOSAUR | What large reptile of the Mesozoic era with a broad flat body and large paddle-like limbs lived in the sea? (10) |
| ICHTHYOSAURIA | Order of extinct reptiles of the Mesozoic era (13) |
| DEVONIAN | Geological period of fishes |
| DINOSAURS | Extinct reptiles of the Mesozoic era (9) |
| PTERODACTYL | Extinct flying reptile of the Mesozoic era whose name is Greek for ' wing finger' (11) |
| JUNE | Did you know?: The summer solstice (which is the time of the longest day and shortest night) occurs each year on the 20th or 21st of ___ |
| FOREST | During the Mesozoic Era (about 252 million to 66 million years ago) much of Antarctica was covered in dense _______ (6) |
| HARDTIMES | Tenth and shortest of Charles Dickens' fourteen completed novels (1854), set in the fictional Coketown (4,5) |
| MORAR | Name of Britain's deepest lake and shortest river, both located in the Scottish Highlands (5) |
| DIRECT | Following the quickest and shortest path (6) |
| OCEAN | Tethys, during the Mesozoic Era |
