| ASHCROFT | Frances Mary --, author of 'Life at the Extremes' (8) |
| SAINTSIMON | French diplomat and chronicler whose monumental Memoires provide a candid account of life at the Versailles court of Louis XIV (5-5) |
| MCCARTHY | Mary -; author of novels including The Company She Keeps, The Group and A Charmed Life (8) |
| THEODORE | "Life at the Bottom" author Dalrymple |
| FELICITY | She has an active life at the metropolis (8) |
| STRENGTH | Sara Henderson's second novel of life at Bullo River Station, The ... In Us All |
| ATKINSON | Kate ___, author of Life After Life (8) |
| TIPRINGS | They're at the extreme top ends of rods (*tin grips) (3,5) |
| CAPEHORN | Rocky headland at the extreme southern tip of South America (4,4) |
| MARGINAL | Alarming changes at the extreme |
| BENDA | Bohemian composer and virtuoso violinist who worked for much of his life at the court of the flautist future Frederick the Great (5) |
| RENAULT | Mary -, author of historical novels The Mask of Apollo and The King Must Die |
| BEERBOHM | Author of Zuleika Dobson, a satire on undergraduate life at Oxford (8) |
| DOUGLAS | Prince Hal spares whose "Scottish" life at the end of the play? |
| MAST | "Two Years Before the ___" (RH Dana's memoir of life at sea) |
| PRIME | In the ___ of life; at one's peak |
| HOTEL | Start her on the easy life at the inn (5) |
| WEBB | Mary -; author of Gone to Earth and Precious Bane (4) |
| SHELLEY | Mary -, author of 1818 novel Frankenstein (7) |
| REVUP | Prepare to burn evidence of life at vicarage? (3,2) |
