| FAUNA | Animal life of an area (5) |
| FLORA | Plant life of an area (5) |
| VEGETATION | Plant life of an area (10) |
| BIOTA | All the plant and animal life of a region (5) |
| ANNIE | 1946 musical with songs and lyrics by Irving Berlin, a fictionalised version of the life of an American frontier character (5,3,4,3) |
| RENEE | "The Secret Life of an American Teenager" actress Olstead |
| EVITA | Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber musical on the life of an Argentinian icon; Mid-Cheshire Musical Theatre Company's production (September 2019) has been nominated for best musical by the National Oper |
| FAUNAL | Pertaining to the animal life of a region |
| FAUNAE | Animal life of various regions |
| AZOIC | Before the existence of animal life (5) |
| BIOME | Community of plant and animal life |
| LATIN | Source of the word "fauna," which means "animal life" |
| MOULT | Part of some animals' life cycle (5) |
| GETYOURGUN | 1946 musical with songs and lyrics by Irving Berlin, a fictionalised version of the life of an American frontier character (5,3,4,3) |
| EARTH | Only planet on which animal life is known to exist |
| ISIS | Double life of an Egyptian goddess |
| OHAIRTHEMUSICAL | Unlikely Broadway production about the life of an atheist? |
| POCANONTAS | Celebrated Native American girl said to have saved the life of an early English settler. (10) |
| PROLIFE | Supporting the right to life of an unborn; opposed to abortion (3-4) |
| SONGOFSOLOMON | 1977 novel by Toni Morrison which is about the life of an African-American man living in Michigan: 3 wds. |
