| HASBEEN | Person past his period of fame (3-4) |
| HIPSTER | Trendy figure: seizing power, his period in office finished early |
| CLARE | English peasant poet who, after a brief period of fame, fell out of fashion and was committed to an asylum until his death in 1864 (5) |
| HED | Third person past contraction |
| LONGOFF | Fielder way past his best? (4,3) |
| ASYOUWERE | Description of second person's past military command? (2,3,4) |
| IMAGO | Ideal notion of this person's past |
| OVERTHETOP | It's clear he will surpass the others, though past his best (4,3,3) |
| GOESTOPOT | What snooker player does when past his best? (4,2,3) |
| TRACKRECORD | (A person's) past achievements |
| OUTOFTHISWORLD | Blooming often in the past, his society could be brilliant (3,2,4,5) |
| MICHELTANGELO | Artist who never got past his bowl-of-fruit phase? |
| DEGAS | Impressionist past his prime sent up head of state (5) |
| BOLD | Bighead, past his prime, yet courageous (4) |
| OLDTIMER | Past his prime, he may still be useful in the kitchen (3,5) |
| NOSPRINGCHICKEN | One past his prime |
| EMERITUS | Value American below English academic past his best? (8) |
| GOINGDOWNHILL | Imitating skier, maybe, past his best? |
| ROONEY | Hodgson, for example, accommodating one footballer who's past his best (6) |
| DINOSAUR | Saudi, Ron, was past his use by date (8) |
