| JURASSIC | Period when there were dinosaurs |
| SILLYSEASON | Late summer period when there is little real news (5,6) |
| ERA | A historical period when there was a short, nightmare uprising (3) |
| LESSON | Period when there's not as much happening (6) |
| YORE | When there were luters and no computers |
| ROPEDIN | Recruited when there were strings attached? (5,2) |
| DARKAGES | Times when there were no leading lights? (4,4) |
| SPARE | See 22 Ac. Materials for repair needed when there were enough actors? (5,5) |
| DRYSEASON | Time of the Prohibition when there were no blessings from above (3,6) |
| PARTS | Materials for repair needed when there were enough actors? (5,5) |
| EYES | In The Anniversary Song Al Jolson sang, "The world was in bloom, there were stars in the skies; Except for the few that were there in your ..." |
| OVERCAST | There were too many players when it was turning cloudy (8) |
| DEAREST | There were tears when my sweetheart left Dorchester - I was distraught, he was my beloved (7) |
| IDES | There were days when even a Roman was off-side! |
| WAS | "There were bells on the hill; But I never heard them ringing; No, I never heard them at all; Till there ... you" |
| ENDLESS | Would finish smaller if there were a finish (there isn't!) (7) |
| SUCHA | In Moon River there were, "Two drifters off to see the world; There's ... lot of world to see" (4,1) |
| AND | Agatha Christie's "___ Then There Were None" |
| THETHREEMUSKEETERS | There were four, and they didn't use guns |
| COLONIES | There were thirteen of them |
