| MYSTERIES | Puzzles in sequence by me consuming time (9) |
| INITIATED | Launched popular appeal with new idea, consuming time (9) |
| ACROSTICS | Poems or word puzzles in which certain letters in each line form a word or words (9) |
| TRISTICH | Poem in three lines originally in Tamil's deep... consuming time (8) |
| THEFORSYTESAGA | Novel sequence by John Galsworthy published in 1922 |
| SAGA | Novel sequence by John Galsworthy published in 1922 (3,7,4) |
| THEFORSYTH | Novel sequence by John Galsworthy published in 1922 (3,7,4) |
| THEFORSYTE | Story sequence by John Galsworthy published in 1922 (3,7,4) |
| FORSYTESAGA | 'The ---', novel sequence by John Galsworthy published in 1922 (7,4) |
| METAS | Movies about movies, or puzzles within puzzles, in modern slang |
| LITTLEKID | Child represented in six squares in this puzzle (in either of two different ways) |
| GROUPCAPTAIN | Officer set about tiresome task, consuming time |
| TATTERS | Shreds potatoes, consuming time (7) |
| VISTA | Prospect of travel document consuming time |
| TORTOISE | Slow mover to get up, consuming time and oxygen (8) |
| INSTITUTES | They may promote research, unmoved, consuming time over unfinished experiment (10) |
| TESTIMONY | Times puzzle in Blair's manifesto (9) |
| UNOPPOSED | Puzzle in fluctuation of the pound: few get into Parliament so (9) |
| PILGRIMAGE | 13-volume novel sequence by Dorothy M Richardson (10) |
| PALESTRINA | Inferior short sequence by a Renaissance composer |
