| MYLOT | "It's ___ in life" ("It's the hand I've been dealt") |
| ADVOCAAT | Part of snowball in hand, I've evenly splattered a coat (8) |
| SHEARING | What springtime brings on in the folk song though in real life it's done much earlier, so that some sheep have to wear little jackets to keep out the cold! |
| HANDLING | Dealing with the cards one has been dealt with the fish (8) |
| OUTBOXED | They contain what's been dealt with when proves superior in the ring (8) |
| BESTTHINGS | The ___ in life are free (4,6) |
| TRYINGHISHAND | Tiresome, the cards he's been dealt - but having a go (6,3,4) |
| TAROTS | Decks revealing the cards you've been dealt |
| SET | Coronation Street extended its _ in 2022 to include the Weatherfield Precinct (3) |
| AMUSEMENT | "One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any ___ in life": "The Importance of Being Earnest" |
| NOREGRETS | "There are _ _ in life, just lessons": Jennifer Aniston (2,7) |
| LATER | "Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little ____ in life." (Asquith) |
| HANDLED | Felt it had been dealt with (7) |
| TWISTED | Danced about, having been dealt a new card (7) |
| THROWINONESHAND | Discard all one's been dealt and give up (5,2,4,4) |
| THIRDHAND | From a friend of a friend, two others having been dealt first? (5-4) |
| TICKED | Was heard and was seen to have been dealt with (6) |
| ASTEP | "It's ___ in the right direction": 2 wds. |
| WEIGHT | Each locust can eat its ___ in plants each day |
| ALL | It's ___ in the Game, much-covered song |
