| EPICAL | Quiet in Alice, but that is a long story (6) |
| SEMI | A short trailer that is a long one (4) |
| CHESHIRECAT | (Lewis Carroll's) Alice: "But I don't want to go among mad people" / ____: "Oh, you can't help that, we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad" |
| NORMAL | Palmerston has no pets but that is usually the case (6) |
| AGASSI | Tennis legend returning is a long story |
| HYPNOSIS | State that resembles sleep but that is induced by suggestion (8) |
| EMPIRESTATE | Part of America is temperate, but that is changing |
| REGRETTABLE | Better lager may be brewed, but that is to be rued (11) |
| USEDTO | Took advantage of a pair, we hear, but that was in the past (4,2) |
| IMPAIR | I am more than one but that will create some damage (6) |
| AORIST | Tense from a profit but that which gets one going for good |
| EPIC | How it turns up in recipes is a long story (4) |
| SAGA | Flag to which there is a long story (4) |
| UNLESS | But that |
| SYRACUSE | It was the chief city of Sicily for the ancient Greeks. It was settled about 734 BCE by Corinthians, and its history is a long story of invasions and conflict, including the Allied invasion of 1943. I |
| DORMANT | Like a volcano quiet for a long time but that could erupt in future (7) |
| MOA | New Zealand bird that went extinct in the 1400s, but that biotech company Colossal Biosciences claims to have made a breakthrough toward reviving last week; we've already brought it back in our theme |
| STRUTTED | I swaggered but that Saint Ted, is in a rut (8) |
| HONEYPOT | Norfolk wood that sounds like a sweet food container but that was actually named after the medieval words for a sewage dump! (8) |
| STONEAGE | Tea's gone off - but that was a long time ago |
