| RIPEOLDAGE | Wonderfully high number of years to have lived |
| RICKARD | Eva ___, 1925-1997, activist who campaigned for 20 years to have land around Raglan harbour returned to Maori (7) |
| POLYGAMY | College has high, excessively high number of matches |
| YEARN | Long for the beginning of the year to have merit (5) |
| STYE | Worst year to have eye ailment (4) |
| ARENA | A great number of years to set up venue |
| AVERAGE | Affirm number of years to be mean (7) |
| ELEPHANT | In 1990, the remains of a Steppe Mammoth, Mammuthus Trogontherii, the largest species of ... ever to have lived, were discovered at West Runton (8) |
| NASH | Welsh dandy and self-styled "king of Bath", nicknamed Beau, whose mistress, Juliana Popjoy, is said to have lived in a tree for some 30 years (4) |
| AESOP | Storyteller of the 6th century BC said to have lived as a slave on the island of Samos (5) |
| ENOS | Genesis figure said to have lived 905 years |
| METHUSELAH | Old Testament patriarch supposed to have lived 969 years (10) |
| NOAH | Biblical figure said to have lived to 950 (4) |
| KINGARTHUR | Legendary ruler of the Britons supposed to have lived around the early sixth century (4,6) |
| BLUEWHALE | Common name for the most massive animal ever to have lived, a species of baleen whale weighing approximately 150 tons. (4,5) |
| TALIESIN | Chief of the bards in Welsh myth and legend, believed to have lived in the 6th century (8) |
| MILLIPEDE | Oldest known creature to have lived on land |
| DWELT | Terribly lewd time to have lived |
| BLUE | ___ whale, the largest animal ever to have lived (4) |
| RESIDED | Engineers preferred to have lived |
