| NEOLITHIC | Term for the late Stone Age, beginning around 10,000 years ago (9) |
| COPPER | One of the first metals used by humans, around 10,000 years ago (6) |
| SHEEP | Animal which was first domesticated in Mesopotamia around 10,000 years ago (5) |
| SPACEAGE | The age beginning with the first space travel; from 1957 to the pres (5,3) |
| EPOCHMAKING | Important new age beginning (5-6) |
| KEYLARGO | Island off the southern coast of Florida with a population of around 10,000 (3,5) |
| GRAVEYARD | Is one reserved for the late programme scheduler? (9,4) |
| THOMASKYD | English dramatist best known for the late Elizabethan revenge play The Spanish Tragedy (6,3) |
| STOPPRESS | Block iron for the late news (4,5) |
| MAIZE | Cereal grain domesticated by people in Mexico about 10,000 years ago (5) |
| ASIA | Where dogs are believed to have been domesticated 10,000+ years ago |
| ICEAGE | It ended about 10,000 years ago |
| INTIFADA | The major Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation beginning around 1987 (8) |
| TORAH | Book that gets reread from the beginning around autumn |
| ELTON | Flamboyant pianist who released the tribute album Candle In The Wind 1997 for the late Princess of W |
| THRENODY | Lament for the late railway, done up inside after the cut (8) |
| UPTURNED | Burst isn't beginning around noon, it's over |
| STARDUST | Dreamy feeling beginning around south of France going north (8) |
| ROOST | Perch in beginning around front of stage (5) |
| INVITRO | Sort of out-of-body process beginning around six (2,5) |
