| DECADES | Years of |
| MATCHSTICKS | After eight years of work, Frenchman Richard Plaud recently finished his 24-foot replica of the Eiffel Tower; it's composed of about 700,000 of these |
| CORKLINED | Descriptive of Marcel Proust's spartan bedroom where he spent most of the last three years of his life (4-5) |
| ICEAGE | I, a person of great wisdom (so it is said) get a very long cold - years and years of it (3,3) |
| KATERI | The first Indigenous person of North America to become a Saint, she was born in New York state ...and lived in the present-day Mohawk territory of Kahnawake (near Montreal) in the last years of her li |
| MOUNTPINATUBO | Stratovolcano on the island of Luzon in the Philippines that erupted in 1991 after 600 years of dorm |
| GOLDWYN | Samuel ___, producer of the films The Best Years of Our Lives and Guys and Dolls (7) |
| RUBYWEDDING | Celebration of forty years of married life (4,7) |
| SUNYATSEN | 'Pioneer of the revolution' that overthrew China's Qing (Manchu) dynasty in the early years of the 20th century (3,3-3) |
| MARQUEZ | Gabriel Garcia ___ (1927-2014), Colombian author of 1967 novel One Hundred Years Of Solitude (7) |
| MOZART | Salzburg-born musician who, in his 35 years of life, composed some 600 works including The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute (6) |
| HUNDRED | One ___ Years of Solitude 1967 novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez that revolves around various generations of the Buendia family |
| YEARLING | The young of an antelope between one and two years of age (8) |
| HUGERSENATOR | After years of performing cardiac procedures, the HEART SURGEON ran for office to become a ___, a more gigantic version of other politicians |
| PARR | Young salmon up to two years of age, between the stages of try and smolt (4) |
| EIGHTH | An oak wedding anniversary marks this number of years of marriage (6) |
| ACTLIKEANOLDPRO | Part of the nucleus that pretends to have years of experience? |
| EIGHTY | An oak wedding anniversary marks this number of years of marriage (6) |
| DIAMOND | Neil sings of sweet Caroline - after 60 years of marriage? (7) |
| DIAMONDWEDDINGS | Celebrations of 60 years of wedlock (7,8) |
