| MONTHS | Marches, for example, years in the making? (6) |
| ASSYRIAN | For example, year I spent in hospital - one in Iraq once |
| EVERYSTUDIOPASSEDONIT | "Ten years in the making!" |
| SYRIA | Republic that is a year in the making |
| POMP | Word, borrowed by Sir Edward Elgar for a series of marches, for ceremonial splendour, magnificence, ostentatious display or pageantry (4) |
| BORDERS | Marches for boys who live at school, one is told (7) |
| OPUSES | Marches, for instance |
| FINLAND | Country ranked as the happiest in the world for consecutive years in the latest World Happiness Report 2025. (7) |
| PETERTHOMSON | The only golfer to win the Open for three consecutive years in the 20th century (5,7) |
| SEVENTY | The number of years in the three score and ten lifespan promised in the Bible |
| LIFESPAN | Scorpions have a long ___ and can live for up to 10 years in the wild and 25 years in captivity |
| YALE | Loser to Harvard for the last nine years in "the Game" :( |
| ELNINOS | In oceanography, the warming phases of ENSO cycles occurring every few years in the equatorial Pacif |
| SERVINGONESTIME | Working for a number of years in the forces, or in prison (7,4,4) |
| WYMAN | Who left the Rolling Stones in 1992 after thirty years in the band? (5) |
| RIPVANWINKLE | Who, in a tale, went to sleep for 20 years in the Catskill Mountains? (3,3,6) |
| KEYSTAGE | A block of years in the state education system in the UK except Scotland (3,5) |
| ZACHBRYAN | Something in the Orange country singer who served eight years in the Navy: 2 wds. |
| RIODEJANEIRO | City which, for 13 years in the 19th century, was the only European capital outside of Europe |
| CONGRESSMAN | Fillmore, for eight years in the 1830s and '40s |
