| ANNUAL | Plant that lives and dies within a year |
| EXISTS | Lives and dies clutching head of sword (6) |
| TURTLE | Has a tough shell, leathery skin, swims like a slow dream, and dies when a plastic earbud is mistaken for food and gets stuck in its gullet. (6) |
| BIENNIAL | Plant that lives a couple of years |
| PERENNIAL | Describes a plant that lives for longer than two years (9) |
| AEROBES | Microorganisms that live and grow only in the presence of air |
| HAMADRYAD | In classical mythology, a class of nymph that inhabits a tree (traditionally an oak or poplar) and dies with it (9) |
| PERMANENT | By 1926 we used this word to refer to a lasting artificial wave for the hair; within a year it had been shortened again to a perm |
| ABIDES | Lives like a sailor and dies like this |
| PARASITE | An animal or plant that lives on another and feeds from it (8) |
| EARACHE | Within a year a chest pain... (7). |
| ARMY | Member of military force, within a year, is in a different branch? |
| SHORTTERM | Like loans that must be repaid within a year |
| ALGA | Plant that lives in water |
| IGUANAS | The Galapagos Islands are home to these unique lizards that live and forage in the sea, marine ... |
| EPHEMERAL | Any short-lived plant, especially one whose life cycle repeats within a year (9) |
| ANT | It takes only one queen ___ to start a new colony (Fun fact: Within a year, it may be home to up to 250,000 critters) |
| AQUATIC | Description of an animal or plant that lives in or near water (7) |
| CROAKS | Makes like a frog and dies (6) |
| ART | It "lives from constraints and dies from freedom," per Leonardo da Vinci |
