| Phase of history. |
| Path of a story |
| Life story, for short |
| Action needed to spot the four fliers in the theme answers |
| Activity suggested by this puzzle's theme entries |
| History book chapters |
| Partially obscured (and a hint to this puzzle's theme) |
| Blocks of history |
| A Footnote to History" author's inits. |
| Story of a Ping-Pong champ's retirement years? |
| Story of gorilla warfare? |
| A long-established history |
| Ancient storyteller hired by royalty to tell stories in praise of said royalty. Good feedback all around, I think |
| Intervals of history |
| Cave raider of story |
| Lone Ranger's theme composer |
| Bodybuilder's theme song? |
| A notable period of history |
| Bones in a spooky story |
| A People's History of the United States" writer Howard |
| West Side Story" seamstress |
| Alistair Horne book subtitled "A Short History" that begins with the division of Gaul into three parts |
| 1961 John Updike story set in a grocery store |
| Asleep ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| African American mathemetician who purportedly surveyed the District of Columbia |
| Alternative words used as alternatives for each other in this puzzle's theme answers |
| Memorable chunks of history |
| Contract extras, and read differently, a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| Venerable author of The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, d. 735 |
| Cover story? |