| CORSICA | Island century or so ago banning travel |
| FIFTYISH | Hits iffy, unorthodox half-century or so (8) |
| THURSDAY | 72 hours or so ago, child born then has far to go (8) |
| ODDS | Word for probability, used in betting since the end of the 16th century, or, leftover or miscellaneous pieces (4) |
| DOUBLET | A man's jupon- or pourpoint-like close-fitting padded jacket worn from the 14th to the 17th century; or, a word-ladder puzzle (7) |
| KLEPHT | A Greek resistance fighter following the Turkish conquest of the 15th century or during the 19th-century war of independence; subsequently, a mountain-dwelling brigand (6) |
| URBANLEGEND | Description of reports about Spring-heeled Jack (19th century) or the "killer in the back seat" (20th century) |
| CORKAGE | A term, echoing 19th-century or vintage practices, for a restaurant's bottle-opening charge, BYOB fee or unstoppering levy (7) |
| BUICK | Century or Le Sabre |
| TEAL | After tea make a half century, or a duck (4) |
| PRIOR | Source of poetry in 17th century or earlier |
| AEON | Far more than a century or two |
| OLDMASTER | Painting from the eighteenth century or earlier (3,6) |
| MID | Prefix with century or sentence |
| LORD | Possibly count half a century or ten times that (4) |
| ASTRONOMER | Observer of the stars' movements like Caroline Herschel in the nineteenth century or Al-Battani in t |
| TRECENTO | From "300", a term for the 14th century, or 1300s, in Italian art (8) |
| ELENA | Author of one of The New York Times' "best books of the 21st century" ... or its narrator |
| KAMINDU | Who recently joined Sir Donald Bradman as the third-fastest player to reach 1000 Test runs and also became the first player to score a half-century or more in each of first eight Tests since debut? (7 |
| SKIRRET | Sium sisarum, a root formerly eaten in Britain, but not mentioned in nineteenth-century or later recipes |
