| URBANLEGEND | Story of modern life, often untrue or apocryphal (5,6) |
| MYTH | Remarried man hurt by story of modern life? (5,4) |
| URBAN | Remarried man hurt by story of modern life? (5,4) |
| URBANMYTH | Apocryphal anecdote of modern life (5,4) |
| FRY | Presenter of The Secret Genius Of Modern life, Hannah _ (3) |
| ROCKO | Animated protagonist of Modern Life worried crook (5) |
| RATRACE | Hurry of modern life |
| ABBAEBAN | Author of "My Country: The Story of Modern Israel" |
| ANKH | Early Egyptian symbol of life, often in the form of a necklace (4) |
| COUNTERFEIT | Apocryphal |
| TRAVELLERSTALE | Exaggerated, often untrue, story of what one has seen abroad (10,4) |
| BLACKHAWK | 1999 book by journalist Mark Bowden, _ _ A Story Of Modern War (5,4) |
| RESCUE | Need for the jaws of life, often |
| EMBELLISH | To make a statement or story more interesting by adding extra details that are often untrue (9) |
| EMBELLISHMENT | Detail, often untrue, added to a story to make it more interesting (13) |
| LIE | Untrue or deceptive statement deliberately used to mislead (3) |
| RHUBARB | Words that are untrue or make no sense (7) |
| REPUDIATE | Reject as untrue or unjust (9) |
| HAZARD | Golfer's obstacle such as a bunker; or, a danger to health/life, often subject to a risk assessment (6) |
| MANET | Parisian artist and companion of Charles Baudelaire who painted scenes of then modern life including The Luncheon on the Grass and Music in the Tuileries (5) |
