| SLUMS | "How the Other Half Lives" setting |
| SALEM | "Days of Our Lives" setting |
| ELECTRICRAZOR | One of The Blades tends to be plugged in at a live setting cutting Zappa short, for one? (8,5) |
| PLAINTIVE | Woeful piano isn't commonly used in live setting (9) |
| TENEMENT | "The first ___ [of New York] bore the mark of Cain from its birth, though a generation passed before the writing was deciphered" (Jacob Riis, "How the Other Half Lives") |
| RIIS | "How the Other Half Lives" author |
| JACOBRIIS | "How the Other Half Lives" author |
| TRANSSEXAL | One eager to see how the other half lives, say |
| SLUM | Site in "How the Other Half Lives" |
| RIS | "How the Other Half Lives" author Jacob |
| ALAN | "How the Other Half Loves" playwright Ayckbourn |
| UXORIALLY | How The Other Half Loves, heading off somewhere in Egypt with current partner (9) |
| DUVALL | The other half of the couple in The Shining |
| OTHER | Photography pioneer Jacob Riis published his images of the slums of New York under the title, How The ... Half Lives |
| THEYTAKETAXES | The other half of the quote |
| ALEWIFE | Half a whale, the other half a fish |
| THROW | Chuck half that, borrow the other half (5) |
| MEATBALLS | The other half of the Italian entree |
| GRUMPY | Diminutive character good, the other half the size? (6) |
| FLIPSIDE | A turn over the border with the other half (4,4) |
