| PASSAGES | Having the ticket and the times of the journeys |
| ALMANACS | Meaning "the calendar", annuals listing information including festivals, moon phases, planting dates and the times of sunrise and sunset (8) |
| KISMET | First seen on Broadway in 1953, which musical is set in the times of The Arabian Nights? (6) |
| ODYSSEAN | Relating to a literary classic; a description of the journeys of some refugees |
| PASSEDON | Had handed over the ticket and done wrong (6,2) |
| 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. |
| ELPHABA | Titular protagonist of the 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by US author Gregory Maguire (7,6) |
| THROPP | Titular protagonist of the 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by US author Gregory Maguire (7,6) |
| BETTYFORD | Author of the memoir "The Times of My Life" (1978) |
| ANKA | Writer of Kodak's "The Times of Your Life" song |
| CHAI | Ray and Rosa's daughter in The Times of Our Lives, ___ Li (4) |
| TENSES | These are the times of past, present and yet to come. (6) |
| FAREWELL | Having cost of ticket and fine? Goodbye! (8) |
| HOME | End of the ladder (and the end point of the journey) |
| LOTTERY | A method of raising money by selling numbered tickets and giving a proportion of the money raised to holders of numbers drawn at random (7) |
| ESTIMATED | Reckoned that there had been a mix-up with both the date and the times (9) |
| NEWSMEDIA | Time and the Times, e.g. |
| MATHS | A subject at school about numbers, sums and the times-table |
| ARTEMIS | A royal and The Times maligned Diana (7) |
| EQUINOX | Either of two times of the year when day and night are of equal length (7) |
