| TENSEEXCHANGE | Harsh words regarding the past and the present? |
| IFWEOPENAQUARREL | ... “____ between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future” (Winston Churchill, in his Finest Hour speech) |
| REFORMER | He advocates change regarding the past (8) |
| JANUS | Depicted with two faces so as to look to the past and the future, an ancient Roman god of beginnings, doorways and the New Year (5) |
| JANUARY | With a "wolf" full moon and symbols including garnet, carnation and snowdrop, month named after a god of doorways whose two faces look to the past and the future (7) |
| SWEETNOTHINGS | Affectionate words regarding honey-glazed ducks? (5,8) |
| SENTENCE | A few words regarding punishment |
| ADHERE | Stay true to the present time and the present place (6) |
| NEOZOIC | Geological period between the Mesozoic and the present age (7) |
| ASTRAL | Most of the past and some of the morals of the stars (6) |
| INTENSE | Where the difference between the past and present is great? (7) |
| BLEW | Squander in the past - and present, we hear |
| WAXWORKS | Where to find figures of the past and present (8) |
| NOWANDTHEN | Occasionally in the past and present |
| GOA | India's "pocket-sized paradise" where beaches meet a Portuguese past and the local liquor, feni, offers a coco- or cashew apple-charged blast (3) |
| NOTPRESENT | Absent only in the past and future? (3,7) |
| WAS | Is in the past and half wasted (3) |
| TIMETRAVELING | Journeying to the past and future |
| LOOKSBACK | Thinks of the past and hopes to find support (5,4) |
| MEMORY | Aya Haidar's artistic practice of reexamining the past and reworking old narratives is a strategy aimed at interrogating this process of looking backward. |