Related Clues:

• 'Not, in short, 17 down (4,3)'
• Not short a leave nor a recent one
• Much earlier
• Gents maybe holding rioting gang way back
• 8 in time to see number (including silencer)
• It's no good one featuring in design of the past
• Remote in time
• Many years past
• In times gone by
• A long time in the past
• Yellow-red earthy pigment
• Ancient pine, with a 50% reduction in leaves
• Ages back
• The far past
• Gang lost in middle of flood finding way back