| ABINGDON | Town now in Oxfordshire, where MG cars were built for fifty years until 1980 |
| DERBY | Where Rolls-royce cars were built prior to 1946 (5) |
| BLENHEIM | Type of Cavalier King Charles Spaniel named after the house in Oxfordshire where Winston Churchill was born (8) |
| CBS | Y&R'S NETWORK FOR FIFTY YEARS |
| MIDLIFECRISIS | If I'd seismic shifts with case of languor, troubling experience for fifty-year-old? |
| AUSTERLITZ | Town now in Czech Republic, site of battle in 1805 (10) |
| WILTON | Town near Salisbury where carpets were made for about 250 years until 1995 |
| BERWICKSHIRE | Historic county taking its name from a town now in Northumberiand (12) |
| SOPHIA | Building in Istanbul that was the largest cathedral in the world for nearly a thousand years until the completion of the Seville Cathedral in 1520 |
| HAGIA | Building in Istanbul that was the largest cathedral in the world for nearly a thousand years until the completion of the Seville Cathedral in 1520 |
| EUCLA | Which town, now almost a ghost town with many of its buildings hidden under sand dunes, was established near the South Australian border in 1885 as a link in the Overland Telegraph? (5) |
| CLIPPER | Fast sailing vessel of which many were built in the mid- 19th century, the Cutty Sark, now in the Greenwich museum in London, is one such (7) |
| RV | The initials on the tank for the 500cc World Champion for 17 straight years until just over 50 years ago. (2) |
| MICHAELVANGERWEN | Dutch darts player, No 1 in the PDC world rankings for seven years until January 3 |
| PISTOL | ___ Pete (nickname for the player whose NCAA scoring record stood for 54 years until broken by Caitlin Clark) |
| DAIMLER | Motor company, founded 1896, which provided cars for Britain's monarchs for 50 years (7) |
| ARONDE | Model name for Simca's successful 1951-'64 classic family saloon; more than 1.4 million were built in that period, when Simca became the second biggest carmaker in France (6) |
| VERSAILLES | Royal chateau built for Louis XIV in Ile-de-France that adjoins the estate on which the Grand Trianon and Petit Trianon palaces were built (10) |
| PTOLEMY | Astronomer whose theory of Earth at the centre of the universe remained undisputed for some 1,400 years until Nicolaus Copernicus's model in 1543 (7) |
| KYOTO | This historic city was capital of Japan for over 1,000 years, until it was replaced by Tokyo in 1868. (5) |
