| NEVERACROSSWORD | How harmonious life would be without people like me around (5,1,5,4) |
| JUSTABOWLOFJERRYS | What ice cream would be without Ben? |
| ANONYMOUSLY | Soon my lousy plan would be without a name (11) |
| AIMLESS | What marksmen would be without a goal? (7) |
| COTTONON | To understand something, usually without people telling you about it (6,2) |
| SARACENS | Without people to fill rugby union team (8) |
| DESERTED | Without people |
| HAMMERANDSICKLE | Spoilt children ask me around in the morning -- this is symbolic (6,3,6) |
| ROADTEST | An examination of it as it would be used in real life would be the way to assess it |
| MUSIC | "Without ___, life would be a mistake." Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols (5) |
| NIETZSCHE | German philosopher who averred "Without music, life would be a mistake" (9) |
| GRADUALLY | 'Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of 80 and ___ approach 18': Mark Twain (9) |
| TOLERANCE | But for this, life would be unbearable (9) |
| TRAGIC | "Life would be ___ if it weren't funny": Stephen Hawking |
| PUNS | People like me like them turned head to tail (4) |
| NUISANCES | People like me cause inns to be smashed up (9) |
| ASSET | "If only I'd known my differentness would be an ..., then my earlier life would have been much easie |
| ONTHEROCKS | How the water of life would go down with scuppered sailors? (2,3,5) |
| KELLY | "My Life Would Suck Without You" singer Clarkson |
| MEDES | Old people like me and Mr. O"Connor (5) |
