| ULTIMO | Term meaning 'in or of the month before the present one'; also the name of a luxury bespoke kitchen supplier in Wilmslow (6) |
| ULT | In the month before the present, briefly |
| PHANTOM | Haunting name of a luxury Rolls-Royce car (7) |
| OREO | Cookie that was introduced the month before the Titanic sank |
| DITTO | Word which can be represented by a symbol, and can mean 'in or of the month already named', or 'in the same way, similarly' (5) |
| LASTED | The editor before the present one survived (6) |
| CHRISTMASEVE | The day before the present one (9,3) |
| PREDECESSOR | Person holding a post before the present one |
| INST | In or of the present month. |
| STAR | - of Bethlehem; plant in the lily family, or one also called a Christmas orchid (4) |
| MLII | CCXL leap years before the present one |
| INVITRO | Latin term meaning 'in glass', used of process of fertilisation outside the body (2,5) |
| LETTER | Can be a single one - but a whole lot is correspondingly a single one also ... (6) |
| BRANTUB | For the present one may go for a dip in it (4,3) |
| EPOCH | Geological time period, of which the present one is the Holocene (5) |
| GESTATION | They have a ___ period of seven and a half months before the reindeer gives birth. |
| UPALONG | Dialect term meaning in a particular direction, or towards a larger community |
| ANGLICE | Latin term meaning 'in English' or 'in the English form' (7) |
| DECAGON | Figure there's a month before the start of November |
| CEDE | Give up over a month before the start of Easter (4) |
