| REALLIFE | Everyday existence as opposed to fiction |
| FACT | Reality, as opposed to fiction (4) |
| LANDOFTHELIVING | Supposed place of those who have returned to normal everyday existence after being ill or asleep a long time (4,2,3,6) |
| LIESUPON | Is necessary for new work to turn to fiction |
| EARTHLY | Relating to material existence as distinct from the spiritual one |
| DEFOE | Journalist, pamphleteer, spy and jack-of-all-trades who stood three days in the pillory for seditious libel, later turning his pen to fiction to write Robinson Crusoe aged 59 (5) |
| TRUTHSERUM | Set out to pen holy book, with odd barrier to fiction? (5,5) |
| LIED | Song gave voice to fiction (4) |
| LASSIE | Girl resorts to fiction about pompous person (6) |
| STRANGER | Like truth, compared to fiction |
| LIKED | Enjoyed King's introduction to fiction with daughter (5) |
| CONJURE | Bring into existence, as if by magic (7) |
| IDENTITY | I had existence as a distinct personality (8) |
| CONJURED | Brought into existence (as if by magic?) (8) |
| LIVEONAIR | Be having seemingly penurious existence, as broadcaster is now? |
| LIVEBACKHANDTOMOUTH | Eke out an existence as a tennis coach? |
| LIEDOWN | Admit to fiction that one won't when dead? (3,4) |
| JINNAH | He insisted, over Gandhi's wishes, on Pakistan's existence as a state |
| LIFESTYLE | Pattern of existence as expressed by a person's activities and interests (9) |
| DEMOTIC | Relating to everyday modern Greek |
