| PROTEROZOIC | Geological aeon constituting the later part of the Precambrian |
| WELLS | Born in the later part of the Victoria era, he was one of he earliest writers of science fiction. He is best known for The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine. |
| NEOLITHIC | Of the later part of the Stone Age (9) |
| GOODAFTERNOON | Greeting for the later part of the day (4,9) |
| EVENING | The later part of the day (7) |
| EVENINGPRIMROSE | A tall plant with pale yellow flowers that open in the later part of the day (7,8) |
| OLDAGE | The later part of life |
| THEREINAFTER | In the later part of a document (12) |
| AFTERNOON | Middle or later part of the day (9) |
| NEWTESTAMENT | Later part of the Bible (3,9) |
| AYR | Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock & ___ Railway, later part of the G&SWR (3) |
| DUSK | Later part of the day |
| AZOIC | Relating to the Precambrian era |
| GRANTA | Name of the river constituting the upper reaches of the River Cam (6) |
| KRILL | From Norwegian for "small fish fry", a micro crustacean forming one of Earth's largest biomasses and constituting the principal food of the largest living animal, the blue whale (5) |
| PITH | Soft fibrous tissue constituting the middle layer of the mesocarp of a citrus fruit (hesperidium) (4) |
| RUBALKHALI | Vast desert region in the southern Arabian Peninsula, constituting the largest portion of the Arabian Desert. Its name means "Empty Quarter" in Arabic. (3,2,5) |
| BAMBOO | Constituting the diet of the giant panda, a tall woody grass and the world's fastest-growing land plant (6) |
| CHONDROGENESIS | Process of cartilage formation in the body, constituting the earliest phase of skeletal development (14) |
| MEDIAN | Constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values. (6) |
