| ABBAS | Palestinian president starting in 2005 |
| SAT | It will include a writing section starting in 2005 |
| UPSTART | University President starting to socialise with sour and unpleasant person (7) |
| YASIR | Late Palestinian President Arafat |
| ARCHAEOPTERYX | The genus of feathered dinosaur that was once thought to be the oldest known fossil bird. Fossils are known from specimens found in the Solnhofen Limestone Formation in Bavaria, Germany, starting in 1 |
| IBIS | Long-legged bird starting in business in Sydney |
| UHURU | ___ Kenyatta, president of Kenya starting in 2013 |
| EAGER | Enthusiastic in punt, but starting in the opposite direction |
| SEATBELTS | Safety devices that became mandatory in cars starting in 1968 |
| BABYBOOMER | Person born in a period of up to 18 years starting in 1946 |
| FORENOON | No one sadly in favour of starting in the morning (8) |
| CATS | Which show was Broadway's longest running, starting in 1987 and ending in 2006? (4) |
| LBARS | Angle irons graphically represented by four sets of black squares in this grid, and by letter formations starting in the four longest answers |
| GRID | Starting ---, in motor racing, a marked section of the track where cars line up according to their times in practice (4) |
| CSI | Hit CBS series starting in 2000 |
| GATT | Commerce treaty starting in 1947 |
| ONCD | Like much music, starting in the late 1980s |
| COLORCAST | Like most TV shows starting in the 1960s |
| NOR | Starting in Scandinavian country for negative link (3) |
| NCISLA | CBS spinoff starting in '09 |
