Questions here are followed by number of words with number of letters in each word in brackets
1. The Longest Day (1,3)
2. Last Summer Olympic City (3,2,7)
3. Well Known in US Autumn (7,2,3,4)
4. Tautological wrist band (9)
5. Five Years (7)
6. After Classical Antiquity (3,6,4)
7. A Worldly Lifetime (8)
8. Alterations to number 45 * (3,5,4,3,1-7)
* number 45 clue is 'Newspaper' (3,5). Initially I answered it as 'The Press' but I have severe doubts that that is correct because I can't move on 8 with this answer in mind.