| BACHARACH | Composer whose 2013 autobiography is entitled Anyone Who Had a Heart: My Life and Music (9) |
| GAMETHEORY | Change of heart, my ego providing competitive strategy (4,6) |
| SCHUMANN | Clara and Robert ___, partners in life and music (8) |
| CILLABLACK | Liverpudlian singer of the No 1 Anyone Who Had a Heart |
| CILLA | - Black, Anyone Who Had a Heart singer (5) |
| HEART | Cilla Black's first UK no 1, Anyone Who Had A - - - (5) |
| MALALA | "I Am ___" (2013 autobiography whose author won a Nobel Prize the following year) |
| IAM | ___ Malala (2013 autobiography): 2 wds. |
| ERNIEWISE | English comedian whose 1990 autobiography is entitled Still on My Way to Hollywood |
| MANANDBOY | All my life - and that's a lot - is about a Bond production (3,3,3) |
| ANNLECKIE | Sci-fi author whose 2013 novel Ancillary Justice won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards: 2 wds. |
| LIFESTORY | Autobiography is economical with the truth about female politician |
| PELE | Soccer star whose autobiography is titled "My Life and the Beautiful Game" |
| GAIL | And 34D Unlucky Corrie lady who had a heart attack while her kids were arguing (4,7) |
| RODWELL | And 12A Unlucky Corrie lady who had a heart attack while her kids were arguing (4,7) |
| CLIVEJAMES | Australian critic, author and broadcaster whose first volume of autobiography is entitled Unreliable |
| ALEXEISAYLE | Liverpool-born comedian whose autobiography is entitled Stalin Ate My Homework (6,5) |
| ONO | 'Art is my life and my life is art' artist |
| STETSON | Headwear for a stepson who's had a heart transplant (7) |
| HARRIS | Frank, writer and journalist whose autobiography My Life and Loves was banned (6) |
