| MIOCENE | First epoch of the Neogene period, extending from around 23 million to 5 million years ago (7) |
| NEOGENE | First epoch of the Neogene Period of the Cenozoic Era, lasting from about 23 to 5 million years ago (7) |
| NOEL | Period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. |
| LONGRUN | Period extending far into the future |
| PLIOCENE | Epoch from two to five million years ago |
| KELP | Large brown seaweed believed to have appeared more than five million years ago (4) |
| PERMIAN | The largest extinction in Earth's history took place during this time, which lasted from about 299 million to about 252 million years ago and set the stage for the emergence of the dinosaurs. |
| PLASTIC | By 2010, around 4.8 million to 12.7 million tonnes of this was dumped into the oceans annually (7) |
| TERTIARY | Old term for the period of geological time that constituted the Paleogene and the Neogene periods of the Cenozoic Era (8) |
| ALABAMA | American state (57,423 sq miles; pop about 5 million), nicknamed the Yellowhammer State (7) |
| IRELAND | Republic in northern Europe (32,595 sq miles; pop: 5 million). It joined the EEC in 1973 (7) |
| DICTION | Mode of speech put on to ensnare victim robbed of five million |
| MISTAKE | Million to one, to bet is an error! (7) |
| LIBERIA | Country in west Africa (43,000 sq miles; pop about 5 million), founded in 1822 (7) |
| GEORGIA | Country in western Asia (26,831 sq miles; pop about 5 million), independent since 1991 (7) |
| PLEISTOCENE | First epoch of the Quaternary period, followed by the present Holocene epoch (11) |
| TORONTO | Canadian provincial capital(pop about 5 million), founded in 1793 (7) |
| CARROLL | Liverpool paid A£35 million for striker Andy ____ in 2011 - more than A£5 million for each goal he scored for them |
| IMBURSE | Rarely pay one million to British user abroad (7) |
| FRIENDS | Show that HBO Max spent $425 million to acquire from Netflix |
