| FAIRYTALE | Once upon a time, it was told to children (5,4) |
| SOIHEAR | 'That's how it was told to me' |
| IMITATE | Feign a time it was fresh (7) |
| TIMEITWAS | "I didn't know what ...; Then I met you; Oh, what a lovely time it was; How sublime it was too" (4,2 |
| FISHBURNE | This actor was only fourteen years old when he won a role in Apocalypse Now - he was seventeen by the time it was shot; Laurence ... |
| TWOCITIES | The Charles Dickens novel with the opening line, 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of time |
| ANTENATAL | Neat outcome with Alan, confused over time - it was before he was born! (9) |
| EVERSINCE | From that time it was screen I've repaired (4,5) |
| LULLABIES | Quiet, gentle songs sung to children to send them to sleep (9) |
| KIDSSTUFF | Does this only matter to children and goats? (4,5) |
| PEDIATRIC | Pertaining to children |
| POSTAGE | After a time it has to be paid (7) |
| AWHILE | For a time it sounded like a cunning strategy! (6) |
| TEMPLEOFHERA | Structure, built for a Greek diety, that hides the time it was constructed, in a way |
| OFTWO | 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times' is the first line in A Tale ... Cities (2,3) |
| EARLIER | Farther back in time it was rare lie that was made up (7) |
| PIE | At one time it was spent in India on a dish of pastry (3) |
| VERTICAL | Clavier: perhaps it's about time it was straight up (8) |
| RELATED | One had blood ties, so it was told (7) |
| OPENINGSENTENCE | "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ...," e.g. |
