| MUSEUM | Where the past is often present |
| AMY | "The Joy Luck Club" author Tan whose new memoir is titled "Where the Past Begins" |
| MUSEUMS | Places where the past can be present? |
| APOSTROPHES | They are often present for the contractions (11) |
| NOWANDTHEN | Every so often present review of genetic material before writing article at the start of November |
| SENECA | One of the younger guys in Rome in the past is seen upset with accountant (6) |
| ZEUGMA | "She cut her hair and her ties to the past" is an example of this figure of speech |
| TRUISM | "What's past is past," e.g. |
| PROUST | His remembrance of things past is sweet and curiously sour in part (6) |
| TRACKRECORD | What one's done in the past is follow the best there is (5,6) |
| HEREANDNOW | "There is only the ___ ___ ___. The past is gone, forgotten": Tom Robinson (4,3,3) |
| MEMORYLANE | Way along which the past is personally remembered (6,4) |
| STRIDENT | A small weapon, in the past, is now part of the nuclear deterrent (8) |
| AIDA | "The Past is Another Land" musical |
| VAGUE | First volume on malaria in the past is unclear (5) |
| DINOSAUR | Person wedded to the past is around, unfortunately |
| CONCEIT | Vanity of court entertaining in the past is half-forgotten |
| YESTERDAYS | The past is over for this rap album (10,4) |
| GONE | The past is over for this rap album (10,4) |
| AGO | The past is seen in a pagoda (3) |
