| SPACEAGE | Of the modern era (5-3) |
| ADHERENT | Disciple of the modern era, the man torn apart (8) |
| ADAGE | Saying of the modern era (5) |
| YOUNG | Cy who pitched the first perfect game of the modern era |
| ADOPTION | In the modern era the choice for those who want a child? (8) |
| ADJUSTER | Setter in the modern era fairer |
| WILLIAMS | She won more Grand Slam singles titles than any other player in the modern era |
| ADVERSE | Not favouring the poetry of the modern era? (7) |
| BENYEHUDA | Lexicographer who was the driving spirit behind the revival of spoken Hebrew in the modern era (1858-1922) |
| RUSSO | Riccardo, a GP points-scoring rider in the 1970s who has a namesake racing in the modern era. (5) |
| LEAD | The French, in the modern era, are first |
| DEBUSSY | Which French composer's 1905 La Mer helped usher in the modern era of classical music? (7) |
| SADISM | Love of cruelty in the modern era is encapsulated by Stalin and Mao primarily |
| UPDATE | Make fit for the modern era |
| ODER | A German runner from the modern era (4) |
| OLDSARUM | Site of the earliest settlement of Salisbury, on a hill about two miles north of the modern city |
| BAKELITE | The 1909 patent of what product is considered the beginning of the modern plastics industry? (8) |
| ADVERSITY | The modern era: it's sliding into very hard times (9) |
| FRUMENTY | Once prominent at Christmas, a type of spiced wheat porridge flavoured with cinnamon, currants, nutmeg, saffron, sugar and yolks that was the medieval forerunner of the modern Christmas pudding (8) |
| BASTILLE | National French holiday to celebrate the birth of the modern French republic, ... Day |
