| DHIRI | Characters in board hiring Amita as Milly in This Life (5) |
| AMITA | Played Milly in BBC2'S This Life, ----- Dhiri (5) |
| MULTIPLY | Increase put Milly in a tizzy |
| LEAST | "Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at ___ don't hurt them": Dalai Lama (5) |
| DELTA | In This Life singer, ... Goodrem |
| MINDY | Comedian Kaling who played Amita in "Ocean's 8" |
| SUMAN | Amita -----, actor from Netflix series Shadow and Bone (5) |
| MILLS | Evesham Festival Shakespeare Ladies champ 2006 (*Milly groans!) (6,5) |
| BLOOD | Your pedigree could be on the line with this life-serum (5) |
| ILEAD | "This Life ___" (2Pac song) |
| YESENIN | "In this life there's nothing new in dying. / But nor, of course, is living any newer" - last words of Sergei ____, written in his own blood |
| MARKTWAIN | 'All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure,' said this writer of Tom Sawyer (4,5) |
| ANDREWLINCOLN | English actor whose TV roles include Egg in This Life and Simon in Teachers |
| DAVENPORT | Jack _, Miles in This Life and Steve in Coupling (9) |
| DEATHBED | One's last resting place in this life |
| DANIELA | ___ Nardini, Anna actress in This Life (7) |
| JACKDAVENPORT | Actor in This Life and Pirates of the Caribbean (4,9) |
| NARDINI | Daniela _, played Anna Forbes in This Life (7) |
| EGG | Andrew Lincoln's role in This Life (3) |
| ZERO | Milly ----, starred as Dotty Cotton in BBC1 soap Eastenders (4) |
