| Want like mad | 13 |
| Hunger or thirst | 16 |
| Hunger (for) | 12 |
| Have an itch | 12 |
| Have a craving (for) | 20 |
| Feel nostalgic | 14 |
| Feel nostalgia, e.g. | 20 |
| Deeply desire, with "for" | 35 |
| Crave (with "for") | 28 |
| Be homesick (for) | 17 |
| Ache, emotionally | 17 |
| Hankered | 8 |
| Engaged in wishful thinking | 27 |
| Did some wishful thinking | 25 |
| Craved (with ''for'') | 37 |
| Wanted badly | 12 |
| Really hoped to get, with "for" | 41 |
| Pined (for) | 11 |
| Had cravings | 12 |
| Pining type | 11 |
| One who pines | 13 |
| One who aches | 13 |
| Man with a yen | 14 |
| Longing person | 14 |
| Desirous one | 12 |
| They're filled with longing | 31 |
| Miss something sorely | 21 |
| Longing (for) | 13 |
| ''... _____ to breathe free'' (Statue of Liberty inscription) | 77 |
| Wish list? | 10 |
| Aches (for) | 11 |
| Has a longing | 13 |
| Is homesick, say | 16 |
| Is filled with desire | 21 |
| Has strong desires | 18 |
| Deeply desires, with "for" | 36 |
| Would, passionately | 19 |
| "Never thought my heart could be so ___" | 50 |
| ___ the Sheep: 1979 | 19 |
| ___ confusion: 46 B.C. | 22 |
| What to expect from a "Hee Haw" calendar? | 51 |
| 12-month subscription to a punster's groan-inducing newsletter? | 67 |
| 12-month famine? | 16 |
| Annus Domini | 12 |
| 1998, e.g., in fancy language | 29 |
| "The ___ rose is brief": Swinburne | 44 |
| 1977 Al Stewart hit | 19 |
| Al Stewart hit of 1976 | 22 |
| China's 4686 or the USA's 1988 | 38 |
| China 4686 (U.S.A. 1988) | 24 |
| 1988, to China | 14 |
| Trip anniversary? | 17 |
| A.H. 1 or A.D. 622 | 18 |
| 2016 will be the next one | 25 |
| Chinese New Year, 2004 | 22 |
| What 1980 was in Chinatown | 26 |
| 2009, approximately | 19 |
| 1999, on Chinese calendars | 26 |
| Reporter's career highlight? | 32 |
| 1998, to the Chinese | 20 |
| 1998, to some | 13 |
| Two- -- ('terrible' tyke) | 33 |
| Like groceries probably past their sell-by dates | 48 |
| A ___ (very young) | 18 |
| Timeline beginning | 18 |
| The beginning, chronologically | 30 |
| The start of time | 17 |
| From the ___ (long time) | 24 |
| Beginning of time, figuratively | 31 |
| During every season | 19 |
| When pretty much every fruit and vegetable is available, in modern supermarkets | 79 |
| Decade parts | 12 |
| Candles on a cake, symbolically | 31 |
| Thurber's "The ___ With Ross" | 43 |
| Revolutionary periods? | 22 |
| Millennium makeup | 17 |
| What some candles represent | 27 |
| Twelve-month periods | 20 |
| There are five in a lustrum | 27 |
| Months and months | 17 |
| Calendar spans | 14 |
| "The ___ at the spring": Browning | 43 |
| What candles on a cake might indicate | 37 |
| TRIPS AROUND THE SUN | 20 |
| They're a part of every century | 35 |
| Sentence units, often | 21 |
| Orbital periods | 15 |
| Century segments | 16 |
| Century components | 18 |
| Birthday units | 14 |
| A measure of time | 17 |
| Wine-bottle listings | 20 |
| What birthday candles represent | 31 |
| Vintage units | 13 |
| Twelve-month spans | 18 |
| Thirty ___ War | 14 |
| They're always advancing | 28 |
| They may be golden | 18 |
| The five in a lustrum | 21 |
| Ten make a decade | 17 |