| CAULIFLOWEREAR | As result of fighting, there's nothing in life a cruel war ruined (11,3) |
| SARAWAK | A war's ruined a king in Asian state (7) |
| HADRIANSWALL | Fortification held in wars ruined entirely (8,4) |
| DOT | A plot of ground / one's portion in life / a great number or amount |
| STATE | Position in life; a particular condition with regard to finances, health, mental fitness, tidiness, weather etc; or, the gas, liquid, plasma or solid molecular form of matter (5) |
| EXHILARATING | "Nothing in life is so ____ as to be shot at without result" (Winston Churchill) |
| PHASE | Stage in life, a ... he's going through |
| ERODE | "Nothing in life should ___ the habit of saying thank you to people": Richard Branson (5) |
| SPLITDECISION | One result of fighting in 1918? |
| BLACKEYE | Result of fighting to live without servant (5,3) |
| FAMILY | "Nothing in life is fun for the whole ___": Jerry Seinfeld |
| RULE | Word for a graduated strip of metal or wood; a code of religious life; a principle of conduct or procedure; or, a standard of estimation (4) |
| MEANBOBBYMCGEE | Janis Joplin song about a cruel guy? |
| LEGEND | Story of a saint's life; a spy's claimed back-story or biography; a body of tradition; or, a map's key (6) |
| BOUCHER | French artist in the Rococo style whose paintings include Charms of Country Life, A Summer Pastoral, The Rising of the Sun, The Billet-Doux, The Dovecote and several portraits of Madame de Pompadour ( |
| DAISY | Depicted in the opening credits of The Good Life, a lawn flower or weed used to symbolise purity, threaded to make garlands by children as a traditional outdoor activity (5) |
| THUG | Tupac: A - - - Life, a collection of writings on the rapper Tupac Shakur published in 2005 (4) |
| BLACKEYES | Results of fighting British flunkeys guarding earl? (5,4) |
| ROCKPOOL | Inhabited by limpets, crabs, starfish and other sea life, a shoreline ecosystem in the form of a natural aquarium left behind by the tide (4,4) |
| DICE | Spotted hexahedrons cast/rolled to determine the outcome of chance in cards, gambling or life; a game played with these; or, small cubes of food (4) |