| MIDDLEAGES | In European history, the period from the end of classical antiquity to the Italian Renaissance (6,4) |
| NEOGENE | Geological period from the end of the Paleogene to the present Quaternary (7) |
| ELD | Antiquity, to the Bard |
| LOP | End of classical work cut |
| MODERN | In history, the period or era since the Middle Ages (6) |
| PALAEOLITHIC | In history, the period sometimes called the Old Stone Age (12) |
| BOTTICELLI | Nickname of the Italian Renaissance artist whose painting The Birth of Venus depicts the Roman goddess of love and beauty arriving on land in a giant scallop shell (10) |
| DISCONTENT | Journalists' shorthand for the period from November 1978 to February 1979 in UK (6,2,10) |
| ARCHIMEDES | Scientist of classical antiquity |
| AGEOF | Series of strategy video games. the first version of which was released in 1997 and covered the period from the Stone Age to the Iron Age (3.2.7) |
| EMPIRES | Series of strategy video games. the first version of which was released in 1997 and covered the period from the Stone Age to the Iron Age |
| TSESAREVNA | In Russian history, the wife of a tsar's eldest son (10) |
| AFTERNOONS | The periods from noon to evening (10) |
| ANTOINETTE | Big name in 18th-century European history |
| EARLYMODERN | Designating the period of European history from the end of the Middle Ages to around 1750 (5,6) |
| JANET | English mezzo-soprano whose career spanned the period from the 1950s to the 80s, Dame ... Baker |
| YTD | Abbreviation indicating the period from the beginning of the current year until now (3) |
| MINOTAUR | Creature of classical antiquity with the head of a bull and the body of a man (8) |
| SPRING | Period from the vernal equinox to the summer solstice in the astronomical year; or, a natural outflow of water from the ground (6) |
| RENAISSANCE | The period of European history marking the change from the Middle Ages to the modern world (11) |
