| EXILES | IRFU - - - , team for Irish-qualified players living and playing in the UK (6) |
| BROPHY | 1957-67 Ireland wing; 1997-98 IRFU President (5,6) |
| NIALL | 1957-67 Ireland wing; 1997-98 IRFU President (5,6) |
| LILYWHITE | Relative of 17 down is leading chess player living in Kildare (9) |
| FONDANT | And, playing in the water container, it's very sweet (7) |
| BEDSIT | In short, a single room for living and sleeping (6) |
| MEDIUM | Intermediary between the living and the dead, allegedly |
| OLIVES | Love to see them living and growing! (6) |
| NUDIST | Barely living and insanely nuts about princess (6) |
| WALDEN | Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau's back-to-nature account of his two-year woodland sojourn of self-reliance, simple living and solitude (6) |
| NEVADA | State with Bartok in and playing around (6) |
| ONTOUR | Traveling and playing gigs |
| PEASANTRY | A rural class taking English and playing in a food store (9) |
| EPITAPH | In diocese of Norwich regulations, "____s should honour the dead, comfort the living and inform posterity" |
| INTERLINKED | Wages and pensions directly related to the cost of living and rising or falling accordingly (5-6) |
| AEON | (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe. |
| SOCIETY | 'There is one great _ alone on earth,/The noble Living, and the noble Dead' (William Wordsworth The Prelude (1850) bk.11) (7) |
| AMISH | Offshoot of the Mennonite religion, known for simple living and unwillingness to adopt modern technology (5) |
| ONEARTH | "There is / One great society alone ____, / The noble Living, and the noble Dead" (Wordsworth) |
| DALAI-LAMA | Spiritual leader who wrote "The Joy of Living and Dying in Peace" |
