| PERMIAN | The last period of the Paleozoic Era, which ended with the largest mass extinction in Earth's history. |
| ERIS | Dwarf planet with the largest mass |
| SCHAMA | Simon ___, writer and presenter of A Histor y Of Britain (6) |
| LONDONIVY | Smoke close to Yorkshire river captured by histor-ian (6,3) |
| NAPOLEONIC | Wars fought between 1803-15 which ended with the Congress of Vienna redrawing European borders (10) |
| PLIOCENE | Geological era which saw the joining of the Americas (8) |
| CARBONIFEROUS | Period of the Paleozoic era |
| CAMBRIAN | First geological period of the Paleozoic Era |
| PROHIBITION | Bygone era, which will help answer the five capitalized clues |
| NEAREST | Ten eras which could be considered the closest (7) |
| POLARBEAR | Largest-mass terrestrial carnivore |
| CRETACEOUS | The ___ period was the last period of the Mesozoic era, between the Jurassic and Tertiary periods |
| NEOLITHIC | From the last period of the Stone Age (9) |
| KITE | Bird of prey of which the Black and Red varieties can both be seen in Mallorca with the latter being brought back from near-extinction in recent years by conservation measures (4) |
| NATIONALSERVICE | Compulsory enlistment in the armed forces which ended in the UK in 1960 (8,7) |
| ALVAREZ | Physicist who discovered the iridium layer and proposed that the mass extinction of dinosaurs was caused by an asteroid impact (7) |
| TURTLEDOVE | Dainty bird that is related to the pigeon, though it is on the brink of extinction in the UK, small numbers can occasionally be seen on Its summer migrations to Mallorca (6,4) |
| ENGLISHCIVILWAR | Series of armed conflicts which ended at the Battle of Worcester in 1651 (7,5,3) |
| VERA | ITV detective series with Brenda Blethyn in the title role which ended last year. (4) |
| OLIGOCENE | Geologic epoch which ended 23 million years ago, last of the Paleogene Period (9) |
