| HISTORIES | The man's tales merge into accounts of the past (9) |
| BILBAO | Left graduate to go into account of life in European city |
| DEPOSITS | Top sides altered amounts paid into accounts (8) |
| APASSAGETOINDIA | Book's foreign edition brought in an old man's tale |
| ORALHISTORY | Word-of-mouth accounts of the past (4,7) |
| SUPERSTAR | Rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, loosely based on the Gospels' accounts of the Passion (5,6,9) |
| BIOGRAPHY | Art of writing a person's life story in an account of the same name (9) |
| STATEMENT | Formal account of The Epistles, for example, in New Testament (9) |
| HERODOTUS | Ancient Greek who wrote Histories, an account of the Greco-Persian Wars (9) |
| REDACTION | Amended written account of the Russian Revolution? |
| TALLSTORY | Incredible account of the giraffe? (4,5) |
| REMINISCENCE | Present account of the past (12) |
| HISTORY | Account of the past - that man's a conservative! (7) |
| MEMOIRS | Accounts of the personal experiences of the author (7) |
| SAMUELPEPYS | English diarist and naval administrator whose diary includes accounts of the Great Plague and the Fire of London |
| JESUSCHRIST | Rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, loosely based on the Gospels' accounts of the Passion (5,6,9) |
| STOREYS | I hear accounts of the floors of buildings (7) |
| BARABBAS | Criminal released by Pilate in Biblical accounts of the Crucifixion (8) |
| OUIJA | Effected by Franco-German agreement, accounts of the dead are gathered here |
| THAUMATROPE | Optical toy in which pictures on either side of a rapidly rotated card or coin appear to merge into one; from Greek, 'wonder turning' (11) |