Solutions Half century has 32 entries with similar clues

• 3-letter words
• mao20th-century Chinese leader
• abe19th-century prez
• 4-letter words
• pastDad's mid-century history
• adam19th-century French composer
• omar11th-century polymath
• 5-letter words
• keatsEarly nineteenth-century poet
• leoii7th-century pope
• 6-letter words
• perukeEighteenth-century wig
• esseneFirst-century mystic
• gilded.... Age (late 19th century)
• 7-letter words
• centaurHalf man, half horse
• androidHalf man, half machine
• hundredCentury
• 8-letter words
• sheridanEighteenth-century playwright
• bloomersNineteenth-century women's wear
• nowadaysIn the twenty-first century
• 9-letter words
• dark-agesLate fifth century to around AD 1000
• montezumaFifteenth-century Mexican ruler
• cleopatraFirst-century queen of Egypt
• 10-letter words
• marco-poloThirteenth-century Venetian traveller
• copernicusSixteenth-century astronomer
• lasermouse21st century gaming accessory
• 11-letter words
• turkey-trotEarly twentieth-century ragtime dance
• edward-learNineteenth-century nonsense poet
• tiktokdanceNoted 21st-century movement?
• 12-letter words
• conquistadorSixteenth-century Spanish invader of Peru
• roman-empireDominant political power of first century AD
• captain-cookEighteenth-century navigator and explorer
• 13-letter words
• fin-de-siecleRelating to the end of the nineteenth century
• maria-theresaEighteenth-century empress
• camille-corotNineteenth-century French painter
• 16-letter words
• swinging-sixties'With it' 20th-century decade