| GAIA | Mother of life, in Greek myth |
| CLOTHO | Spinner of the thread of life, in Greek mythology (6) |
| ATROPOS | Fate and cutter of the thread of life in Greek mythology (7) |
| MACRO | -biotic; roughly translating as "long life" in Greek, a diet and lifestyle based on organic whole foods and the yin-yang philosophy of balance (5) |
| LITTER | Word that collectively refers to a load of old rubbish; or, conversely, a veritable gift of life in the form of a farrow of piglets or a kindle of kittens (6) |
| ERIC | ___ Idle, singer of Always Look on the Bright Side of Life in Monty Python's Life of Brian (4) |
| ASH | Tree of life, in Norse myth |
| LARVA | Form of life in river covered in flowing liquid? |
| HEARTBEATS | Signs of life in blinks of an eye (10) |
| MODUSVIVENDI | Trendy for those Americans against divine manipulation of a way of life in Rome (5,7) |
| SEASHELL | Hard evidence of life in realms of Neptune and Pluto (8) |
| AGERANGE | Span of years, including end of life in a country house |
| ANKH | Ancient Egyptian symbol of life in the form of a looped cross (4) |
| LSLOWRY | Artist famous for painting scenes of life in the industrial districts of North West England (1,1,5) |
| SAMUEL | _ _ _ _ _ _ Pepys, English naval administrator and diarist of life in London in the 1660s (6) |
| PHYSIOLOGY | The science of the processes of life in animals and plants (10) |
| LINWOOD | First sign of life in forested region - no more in Letter From America (7) |
| ANURAG | Director of 'Life In A Metro' and 'Metro In Dino' where Konkona Sensharma worked with Irrfan Khan.(First Name) (6) |
| ACORN | Symbol of life in Octavia E. Butler's "Parable of the Sower" |
| ITOBO | "...You say to yourself, who am _ _ _ _ _ther my head about this, that or the other..." part of Tyrone Power's contemplation about the meaning of life in The Razor's Edge (1946) |
