Referring Clues

• Long time
• Many moons
• Years on end
• Seeming eternity
• Long, long time
• Grays
• "Forever"
• Dark ___
• Quite a while
• Census data
• Gets mellower
• Improves, as cheese
• A long time
• Mellows
• Gets on in years
• Matures
• Is unlike Peter Pan
• A long, long time
• Many a moon
• Ripens
• Entries in a family album
• Many, many years
• Years and years
• "___ 4 and up"
• Forever
• Gets on
• Seemingly forever
• Shows signs of slowing down, say
• Period between blue moons
• Gets ripe
• Wrinkles, say
• Family data
• Seasons
• Mellows, as wine
• Stretches
• Periods in history
• Word on a toy package
• Sits in the cellar, maybe
• Forever and a day
• Loses immediacy
• Who-knows-how-long
• Yellows or grays
• Awfully long time
• Mighty long time
• Pieces of the past
• "It's been ___!"
• Census stats
• "It's been ___"
• All-___ (G-rated)
• Gets older
• Passes the time?
• A long stretch
• All ___ (words on a game box)
• So, so long
• "Rock of ___"
• Isn't getting any younger
• "...and children of all ___!"
• Has another birthday
• Seasons, as wood
• A G rating admits them all
• Shakespearean septet
• Bronze and Iron, e.g.
• Birthday numbers
• Countless years
• Reason and Enlightenment
• Piles on the years
• The times of your life
• Puts on years
• 10 and 8, for Bart and Lisa Simpson
• Grows more antiquarian
• Times of your life
• Lets time improve
• Iron and Bronze, e.g.
• Word after Dark or Middle
• Turns gray
• Numbers requested on many forms
• Yellows or grays, say
• Really long time
• Grows older
• Middle ___ (period from 500 to 1500 years ago)
• Improves in the wine cellar
• Important periods
• Dark ___ (unenlightened period)
• Numbers that never get smaller
• Ever-increasing numbers
• Sits in a wine cellar
• Ripens, as cheese
• Gets old
• Admission price determiners, often
• Grows up
• An eternity
• Gets grayer, usually
• Historical periods
• Big stretches
• Watches the years go by
• Forever, it seems
• Improves, as some cheese
• Big times
• Many years
• They may be checked at the door
• Iron and Stone
• Matures, as wine
• Eras
• Yellows, maybe
• Very long time
• A month of Sundays
• Allows to ripen, as cheese
• Loses freshness
• Times
• Long stretches
• Epochs
• Mellows or yellows
• Allows to ripen
• Grows more antiquated
• Times of your life?
• Refines, as wine
• "Fun for children of all ___!"
• They change every year
• G permits them all
• Eternities
• "... for children of all ___!"
• Ice and Iron, for two
• "Rock of ___"
• Iron and Bronze
• Quite a spell
• Nears retirement
• Innocence and others
• "Haven't seen you in ___!"
• Mellows, in a way
• Long stretch
• Piles on birthdays
• Historic times
• Grows old gracefully
• Month of Sundays
• Eternity, seemingly
• What seems like forever
• Gets better?
• Word of a toy's package
• Improves, as whiskey
• Cultural periods
• Atomic and Ice, e.g.
• Middle and Stone
• Word with Dark or Middle
• Improves Scotch
• Ice and Iron
• Iron and Ice
• ". . . and children of all ___!"
• Quite a long time
• Long stretch of time
• Memorable time periods
• Numbers in photo album captions
• "Now he belongs to the ___"
• "... and children of all ___!"
• Wises up, supposedly
• Spends time in a cellar, say
• Has birthdays
• A very long time
• "... for children of all ___!"
• "Middle" period
• Becomes dated
• Dating service data
• Adds another candle to the cake
• Gets long in the tooth
• Improves, as wine
• Turns yellow or mellow
• Quite some time
• Geologic time division
• Meeting numbers
• Ever so long
• Stone/Ice
• Mellows, maybe
• D_ting concerns
• Gets along in years
• Grows old
• Becomes a septuagenarian, say
• Long periods
• Piles up birthdays
• Years and years
• Gets mellow
• With 19-Across, far back
• Improves in the cask
• Lengthy span
• Ice and Stone, e.g.
• Mellows in a cellar
• Census statistics
• A really long time
• Almost forever
• With 46-Down, well in the past
• Reacts to time
• Census numbers
• Shakespeare wrote of seven
• Stats in a big family
• With 37-Down, way back when
• Shakespeare's seven
• Periods of time
• Shakespearean seven
• Eons
• 'Rock of ___'
• Census information
• Carders' concerns
• Gets better, like wine
• Game-box info
• Gains maturity
• Shakespearean septet in "As You Like It"
• "For children of all ___!"
• Personal numbers?
• Drawn out periods
• A blue moon, so to speak
• Yellows or grays, perhaps
• The numbers in PG-13 and NC-17
• Has birthday after birthday
• Celebrates a birthday
• Yellows, or mellows
• Like Mozart when he did his first European concert tour
• An awfully long time
• Time periods
• Leaves in the wine cellar
• Dries out, as wood
• Turns mellower
• Gets up there
• Long time period
• Birthday counts
• Eon segments
• Many months
• It's a long time
• Biographical data
• A rather long time
• See 41-Down
• Mellows with time
• Refines wine
• Many a year
• Iron and bronze, for two
• Approaches 100
• Becomes ripe
• Ten and eight, to Bart and Lisa
• Years and years and years
• Gets gray, often
• "___ 8 and up"
• The 13 of PG-13 and 17 of NC-17
• Becomes drinkable, perhaps
• Burns out of control
• Sits in a cellar, say
• ___ 10 and up (info on a game box)
• Accumulates birthdays
• Grows wiser, e.g.
• Numbers for your children?
• Makes wine better
• A very long time ... or a hint to the starts of the answers to the five starred clues
• Board game information
• Game box specification
• Rather long time
• ___ 8 and up (game specification)
• Adds a candle to the cake
• Pretty long time
• Elements in vital statistics
• Some census data
• Gets grayer
• Birthday topics
• Consent and Reason, for two
• Lifetimes
• Keeps having birthday parties
• Indeterminate long time
• Gets more mature
• Chronological periods
• Hardly a short spell
• Celebrates birthday after birthday
• Marks another birthday
• Gets 16-Across
• Stores in an oak cask, say
• Makes wine "fine"
• Long period of time
• 10 and 8 for Bart and Lisa Simpson, respectively
• Seasons, as firewood
• Numbers on educational toys
• Innocence and aquarius
• Improves naturally, as wine
• Real long time
• Consent and reason, e.g.
• Some census numbers
• "Middle ___"
• Like, forever
• Little League maxima and minima
• Gets closer to retirement
• Turns one's hair gray
• Particular periods
• Figures on toy boxes
• Birthday figures
• Price-of-admission factors, often
• Eternity
• Generations
• Long timespans
• Grows long in the tooth
• What grandparents may forget about children sometimes
• A lot of time
• A long time for some wage slaves
• Mellows, like wine
• Big differences between grandparents and grandchildren
• Various numbers among family members
• Relatively long time
• Historic periods
• Timeless music is popular for ___
• What even the prettiest pop star does
• Def Leppard "Rock of ___"
• "New Dark ___" Bad Religion
• What Springsteen played for, in the day
• Christian metalcore band War of ___
• "Rock of ___" Gillian Welch
• R.E.M. "___ of You"
• Johnny Cash "Rock of ___"
• "Rock of ___" Grant Lee Buffalo
• Historical eras
• Yonks
• Sage (anag)
• Too long to wait for a half of sausages
• Years in a stage success
• How long it takes to boot up games software?
• A bit stage struck for long periods
• ... of Man, according to WB Yeats
• Not all the ravages are due to time!
• In the rough sea a good long time!
• Anglers regularly disappearing for long periods
• In historic times, a wandering sage
• In America, doing these crosswords, ultimately grows old
• See 30.
• Much time is taken up in obtuse games
• Donkey's years
• (What seems) a very long time
• Agrees about being dropped as one grows older
• Long wait
• See 1
• Only odd anglers read The Times
• A long time providing sage stuffing
• Many years can be over, say, in a second
• Gets on with odd anglers
• Forever, seemingly
• Only odd anglers needed a long time
• "___ 7 and up"
• Keeps having birthdays
• Subjects of white lies, sometimes
• Word on a game box
• Improves, in a way
• Historical spans
• Numbers in family-photo captions, maybe
• Some game-box parameters
• Gets on, so to speak
• Becomes mature
• Earnings do not begin for a long time
• Carries on without leader a long time, however short (as 13)
• Times and Guardian editors selected leaders therefrom
• Gets on stage, scared to undress
• Panda gestation takes a long time
• Lengthy periods when holding back, for example
• First instalment of wages missing for a long time
• Cut salaries for a long time
• A long time in rummage sale
• Leaves, not parking for a long time
• Wage slave takes a long time
• Emerging from backstage: Supertramp Forever
• Pay doesn't start for years and years
• Years
• Acquires wrinkles
• Long time periods
• Improves, as wine or cheese
• Numbers on toy boxes
• Years of life
• Continues to have birthdays
• Bronze and Stone
• All ___ (what a G rating means)
• Periods
• Improves in a cask, say
• An eternity, seemingly
• Way long time
• Goes from 49 to 50 years old, say
• Birthday card numbers
• Stone, Bronze and Iron
• Eligibility factors
• Specs printed on a toy box
• Improves in a cask
• Long times
• Improves, as steak
• Approaches another birthday
• Approaches one's golden years
• For all ___
• Prophet taking his son back is looking older
• Things that change every 365 days
• Is furious right away - for a long time
• Surprisingly sage at times
• As long as one can remember
• Years of lives
• Many moons, so to speak
• Personal statistics that never decrease
• Very long stretch
• Gets on for a good while
• Sits in a cellar, perhaps
• Survey range components
• Changes, like Dorian Gray's portrait
• Dorian Gray's portrait does it
• "For ___ 3-5": toy box spec
• Becomes older
• Brings to maturity
• Information on a game box
• *Oversees
• Gets better, as wine
• Long period
• Possible response to "How long's it been?"
• Family album entries
• Periods of history
• Becomes more mature
• Doctor’s office wait, seemingly
• Starts to seem old and somehow sage
• Mellows, as cheese
• Improves in a wine cellar
• They increase on birthdays
• "I haven't seen you in ___!"
• With 36-Across, in the distant past
• Had Shakespeare seven?
• So long
• Rusts or grays
• Suitability word on some games
• People celebrate when they change
• Achieves senior status?
• A real long time
• Turns 100
• Develops wrinkles, say
• Like, for-EV-er
• Quite a long, long time
• Goes from 12 to 13, say
• Quite a stretch
• Word in a kids' game recommendation
• Golden and Bronze, for two
• A lo-o-ong time
• They change on birthdays
• A mighty long time
• Number range on a board game box
• A long while
• Times of your life?
• Grows season after season
• Suitable for all ___: game rating
• Gets closer and closer to ripeness
• Numbers that change on birthdays
• Stone and Bronze, for example
• Periods with names
• "For kids ___ 3 and up"
• Gospel classic, "Rock of ___"
• Extremely long, undetermined amount of time
• Improves, maybe
• Range on a game box
• Middle ___ (time before the Renaissance)
• Range listed on board games
• Bronze, Iron, et al.
• A long time getting back from the rose garden
• Birthday after birthday after birthday
• Goes from 13 to 14
• They increase on Tet
• Characteristics that rarely change in cartoons
• Gets better in a wine cellar, hopefully
• They're shared by twins
• "___ 6 and up"
• Senesces
• The Middle ___ (Medieval Times setting)
• Things sometimes named after metals
• Ice and Bronze
• Things written in family albums
• For-eh-ver
• Improves with time, like wine
• Number range on many board game boxes
• A super long time
• Ripens, like cheese
• How long it can feel like to wait
• Forevvvvvver
• Wrinkles in time?
• Historic spans
• Improves in a cellar, say
• Forever and ever
• Range listed on video games
• Life times?
• Lives year after year
• 70 to 79, for septuagenarians
• Numbers for everyone in your family
• Numbers on birthday cards
• 7, 8, 9, etc.
• Gets mellower?
• Keeps in a cellar, perhaps
• Goes from 0 to 60?
• Needs one more candle on one's cake
• Board game recommendation
• Factors in baby clothing sizes
• Develops, as bourbon in a barrel
• Typically exaggerated length of time
• "10 and up" preceder
• Celebrates birthdays
• A million years, so to speak
• Number range for some board games
• Becomes more ripe
• Suggested range on a game box
• Such a long time
• Matures, as whiskey
• 2, 4, 6 and 8, e.g.