| HANDTOMOUTH | Sort of existence that may haunt th' mood unfortunately (4-2-5) |
| SPECTRES | Quietly lets out awful secrets that may haunt one (8) |
| EXTINCT | No longer in existence: that animal is now - |
| ONTOLOGICAL | Confused, I go on to call about study of the nature of existence (11) |
| IBIS | Alibi's abandoned by Capone - this may haunt the banks (4) |
| PROLIFERATE | In favour of existence with speed to flourish |
| HIGHERPLANE | Elevated level of existence |
| RAISONDETRE | Purpose of existence |
| REPERCUSSION | What may haunt one about the drummers, mostly (12) |
| COSTOF | 2 & 15. Means of existence (4,2,6) |
| LIVING | See 2 Dn: Means of existence (4,2,6) |
| COSTOFLIVING | List of coving comes under the price of existence (4,2,6) |
| LIFECYCLE | Series of changes through time of existence (4,5) |
| THEODICY | Vindication of divine providence in view of existence of evil (8) |
| ONTOLOGY | Branch of metaphysics that deals with the nature of existence (8) |
| HIGHLIFE | Pilots enjoy this extravagant form of existence (4,4) |
| LIFEFORCE | The power of existence? (4-5) |
| LIFE | Word, related to the German for "body", for one's course of existence; fauna and flora collectively; a painting of a real, rather than imaginary, model; or, a biography (4) |
| LIFESPAN | Period of existence (4,4) |
| ANICCA | Buddhist tenet of fleeting change or "impermanence" - one of the three marks of existence with dukkha "suffering" and anatta "non-self" (6) |
