| KASPAROV | "How Life Imitates Chess" author Garry |
| WILDE | Author who wrote "Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life" |
| ART | What life imitates, so it's said |
| ITRY | Hit off 1999's "On How Life Is" |
| MACY | Gray with the 3x platinum album "On How Life Is" |
| FABULOUS | "How's life in the fast lane, ___?" |
| INVITRO | How life may be created, opening bars around six (2,5) |
| ITGOESUPANDDOWN | How life is like the ocean, or a hint to entering the starred answers |
| TOOFAST | How life seems to travel, in the outside lane (3,4) |
| CROAKS | What you hear in this conversation: "How's life here at the pond?" "Oh, you know, eating bugs, hopping around, the usual." |
| NIGELSHORT | English chess player who challenged Garry Kasparov for the World Chess Championship in 1993 |
| NIGEL | English chess player who challenged Garry Kasparov for the World Chess Championship in 1993 (5,5) |
| SHORT | English chess player who challenged Garry Kasparov for the World Chess Championship in 1993 (5,5) |
| ANATOLY | Longtime rival of chess's Garry |
| ANATOLYKARPOV | Russian chess GM and rival of Garry Kasparov (7,6) |
| DEEPBLUE | IBM chess computer that defeated Garry Kasparov (4,4) |
| DEEP | And 5 IBM supercomputer that played a match with world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997 (4,4) |
| RUSTLEYOURDOGS | Outlasted Garry perhaps so, Garry, get a move on! (6,4,4) |
| BLUE | IBM supercomputer that played a match with world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997 (4,4) |
| KARPOV | Ten-year World Chess Champion whose streak was ended by fellow Russian Garry Kasparov in 1985 (7,6) |
