| SHELF | ____ life, the length of time a product can be stored without deterioration occurring (5) |
| SHELFLIFE | Length of time a product remains salable |
| FREEZONE | Area where goods may be stored without customs payments |
| APPRO | Some cheap product can be returned if on it |
| OMEGA | The end of time, a brief moment recalled (5) |
| FUTON | Bed that can be stored during the day |
| ABORT | In advance of time, a tedious person is briefed to 20 prematurely (5) |
| ARROW | - of time; a concept developed by Arthur Eddington in 1927 (5) |
| IMAGO | Developed form of life - the writer's, in the past (5) |
| ROWAN | Known in Celtic mythology as the "tree of life", the mountain ash or "witchbeam" as it is known regionally with red berries said to ward off evil spirits (5) |
| DEMME | Ted ?, director of films Life, The Ref and Blow who died in 2002 (5) |
| OFMAN | Nobel Prize for Literature winner Patrick White's novel about Australian pioneer life, The Tree ... |
| SCIFI | Some terrific stuff in retrospect: like Life, the Universe and Everything? (3-2) |
| ATTENTIONSPAN | Length of time a person can concentrate on a subject (9,4) |
| AGE | The length of time a person has lived (3) |
| TENURE | Length of time a person holds a job, office, position or title (6) |
| PROCESS | A state of being carried on; course of time; a natural series of changes, as in ageing or digestion; or, a sequence of operations which produce a result (7) |
| OLIVEOIL | What natural product can be used to treat frostbite, as shaving cream and for relieving jellyfish stings? (5,3) |
| TWOCITIES | The Charles Dickens novel with the opening line, 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'; A Tale Of ... (3,6) |
| DICKENS | Author of a series of Christmas novels including The Battle of Life, The Chimes and The Cricket on the Hearth (7) |
