| NOWANDTHEN | Occasionally making a historical contrast |
| SEISMIC | Mike follows species occasionally making a major impact (7) |
| ODE | Doodles occasionally, making some lines (3) |
| PRALINES | Longs to include treacle occasionally making sweets |
| ACCOST | Confront some fascists occasionally making comeback |
| SOMETIMES | Occasionally making an admiring remark about one of our rivals? (9) |
| TAPIOCA | Time with au pair or char, occasionally making pudding (7) |
| ANKH | Article, the kind on reflection occasionally making Egyptian cross (4) |
| SPIRIT | Saatchi's opening with good artist occasionally making animation (6) |
| SKIPJACK | A fop; a historical type of toy fashioned from a fowl's wishbone; a click beetle; a US boat for oystering; a bonito; or, a species of tuna (8) |
| FLIPFLOP | Flimsy sandal with a thong; a bistable; a backward handspring; sound of a regular footfall; or, a historical fruit-sellers dance (4-4) |
| SCORE | An incised line; a notch in a tally; a set of 20; or, a historical account of charges in a tavern |
| EXARCH | Word, rooted in the Greek for "leader, overseer, ruler", for a Byzantine governor, an ecclesiastical inspector, a historical Bulgarian church head, a metropolitan bishop, a patriarchal deputy or a leg |
| SIRE | An ancestor; a lord or master; a historical term of address for a king; or, a bull, dog, stallion or other male animal when kept for breeding (4) |
| TUCKER | A bedmaker who snugly folds in covers; a Victorian lacy modesty piece or yoke of linen for covering a low neckline; a historical textile worker charged with fulling; or, an Aussie's outback provisions |
| LINK | One of a series of loops forming a chain; or, a historical torch of pitch and tow used to light dark streets (4) |
| FROCK | A dress; an old word for a sailor's jersey; monk's habit; or, a historical farmer or peasant's garment (5) |
| MALL | From the name of a historical alley in London for playing a croquet-like game, a shaded or sheltered walk; or, an enclosed shopping centre (4) |
| COLOPHON | From "finishing touch", word for a historical inscription at the end of a tome, giving information about its authorship and printing; or, a publisher's emblem or imprint (8) |
| STOREY | Word, from "tale", for a medieval building's frieze-like tier of narrative paintings depicting a historical scene originally, today a structural deck, floor or level, where life's adventures, mysterie |
