| CHAINSMOKERS | They don't seem to mind life being a continuous drag (5-7) |
| SOAPS | Yet they don't seem to clean up their act (5) |
| SOCKS | They come in pairs but don't seem to stay that way oddly (5) |
| ROMANCANDLES | Fireworks that produce a continuous shower of sparks punctuated by coloured balls of fire (5,7) |
| MONEYSPINNER | Project that generates a continuous flow of cash (5-7) |
| SMALL | A bit of a dismal life, being unimportant (5) |
| BREAKS | What born losers don't seem to get |
| NES | 23 answers in today's puzzle that don't seem to match their clues |
| ASNAG | It may develop when things don't seem to be going smoothly (1,4) |
| CLEANSE | Can see about grasping a bit of life being free from guilt (7) |
| GAFFE | Social blunder to give up cigarette, life being halved (5) |
| FLUNG | Cast starting to feel a little nervous in drag (5) |
| ENFIELD | Gun takes aim, without life being lost (7) |
| MIGRANT | One starting a new life being married, I concede |
| THECAUSEOFITALL | Meaning of life... being Everyman's reason for everything? (3,5,2,2,3) |
| LUIGI | 18 to 14A, one chasing one in drag (5) |
| HUSKY | Sounding hoarse, work for me can really be a drag (5) |
| GARDA | Irish copper's, in retrospect, a drag (5) |
| ENDMOST | Don't seem half-hearted, playing in final (7) |
| HEAVE | Ambassador finds greeting a drag (5) |
