| DECOCT | Two months to take the essence |
| COMMERCE | Two months to cut force in business (8) |
| RIJKSMUSEUM | UK’s juries with two months to reform Dutch institution |
| MONARCH | Month to take on the sovereign (7) |
| LONGMARCH | Wish for a month to take Mao's trip (4,5) |
| INSIST | Is going back inside this month to take a firm stand |
| NY | Working around the clock back in 1931, over 3000 men took just 20 months to build the famous Empire State Building in this city (abbr.) |
| ADULTS | They go through two stages to become ___. The larval stage which lasts about two months then the pupal stage which lasts about three weeks. |
| NYT | Pub. that predicted it would take one to 10 million years to invent a flying machine, two months before the first airplane flight |
| MOONS | Months and months to carry on |
| YEARN | Twelve months to get the point is long (5) |
| YRS | They take months to complete (Abbr.) |
| ARTIST | Painter who may take months to do a wall |
| RELAY | Left in twelve months to pass the baton? |
| CALENDAR | It takes months to drive devastated Clara over the edge (8) |
| YEAROFOURLORD | It is 12 months to ?04 for the man above with ad (4,2,3,4) |
| OTTERYSTMARY | At the end of one August, a storm hit and it took a year and four months to rebuild our countryside place near Feniton (6,2,4) |
| LIVE | Depending on the species they can ___ anywhere from 7 months to over 2 years. |
| RABBITS | Warren-burrowing lagomorphic buns, conies or cottontails bred in the practice of cuniculture and traditionally recalled on first days of months to invoke good luck (7) |
| DECEMBER | Month when the winter solstice (or shortest day) occurs or one of the two months when the period of Advent can commence (8) |
