| GUIGNOL | Paris's theatre of horror for nearly a century, the Grand ... |
| ACHE | After a century, the fellow will suffer pain |
| SADIST | The dentist in "Little Shop of Horrors", for one |
| DUMAS | Best-selling author who founded Paris's Theatre Historique |
| SPLITENDS | Pils drunk by nurses? Shock horror, for some (5,4) |
| GENRE | Horror, for one |
| HOARDING | US President nearly a century ago keeping old poster (8) |
| DAFYOMI | Seven(-ish)-year book-club program started nearly a century ago |
| ISLAND | Over nearly a century, cattle, goats, cats, deer, sheep, pigs, dogs, possums, stoats and rats were eradicated from which North Island nature reserve? (6,6) |
| KAPITI | Over nearly a century, cattle, goats, cats, deer, sheep, pigs, dogs, possums, stoats and rats were eradicated from which North Island nature reserve? (6,6) |
| SOPHIA | Building in Istanbul that was the largest cathedral in the world for nearly a thousand years until the completion of the Seville Cathedral in 1520 |
| HAGIA | Building in Istanbul that was the largest cathedral in the world for nearly a thousand years until the completion of the Seville Cathedral in 1520 |
| BLACKBIRD | They were taken to Australia and New Zealand in the 19th century. The female of this species makes a nest of plant stems, grass, twigs, and roots in the shape of a cup. In the New World, the name of t |
| BYZANTINECHURCH | *The Hagia Sophia, for nearly a millennium |
| PADUA | It was a centre of art and literature in the Middle Ages. The poet Dante lived there, and St. Anthony is buried there. Its university was founded in the 13th century. The Taming of the Shrew is set t |
| MOSES | Ed ---, US hurdler who went unbeaten for nearly a decade in the 1970s and 80s |
| ITALY | Country where Sarah Barlow lived for nearly a decade in Corrie (5) |
| VEZELAY | This French village lies on a hill on the left bank of the Cure River. Its history is tied to its Benedictine abbey, founded in the 9th century. The abbey attracted pilgrims because the supposed remai |
| BARROW | Historically within the Furness district of Lancashire, now, after Carlisle, the second largest town in Cumbria; in the late 19th century, the town's steelworks was the world's largest (6) |
| MACPHERSON | Voted one of the great supermodels of the 20th century, 'The Body' aka Elle ... |
