| FERTILECRESCENT | This name for an ancient and important area was apparently not used before the 20th century |
| CORINTH | An ancient and modern city of the Peloponnese in south-central Greece (7) |
| TANGIER | Moroccan port that was a legendary haunt of pirates in the years before the twentieth century (7) |
| NEWT | Word for an eft not used before end of August (4) |
| PRESAGE | Warn of jam with last bit not used before date (7) |
| NEWWORLD | Term not used before, includes Latin America (formerly) (3,5) |
| THEBES | Greek name for an ancient Egyptian city on the Nile (6) |
| SMYRNA | Small girl's name for an ancient city |
| DESTROY | Do away with a familiar name for an ancient city (7) |
| FERNDALE | Detroit suburb named for the plants the area was once overgrown with |
| SPINNAKER | Small folded napkin put before the Queen. It is used before the main course |
| LOUISIANA | Many French monarchs had this name for a fair amount of Indian area on Texas border (9) |
| ORIGAMI | This name for a craft activity contains a reversal of the Wise Men |
| QUISLING | This name for a traitor came from a WWII Norwegian army captain and Nazi collaborator |
| GOA | The smallest of India's states, what area was colonised by the Portuguese? (3) |
| SIR | Title used before the name of a knight or a baronet (3) |
| COMPUTERGAME | Machine to be used before the match in two weeks we hear, by way of an example |
| ICEHOUSE | A building. partly underground, often in the grounds of large estates, used before the invention of freezers (3, 5) |
| GROUSE | Bird whose verb meaning, to complain, was apparently first used in print by Rudyard Kipling |
| AFTERALL | In the end could the words 'day', night', 'time', 'weather' and 'important' go here, for example? |
