| LASTING | Surviving the French swindle |
| LACONIC | Having little to say as the French swindle leaders of international committee (7) |
| FLEECE | Escape this French swindle (6) |
| MAUS | Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel (1992) by Art Spiegelman, about the author's father surviving the Holocaust (4) |
| EVEL | Knievel, who holds the record for surviving the most bones broken in a lifetime |
| MASON | "Surviving the Game" hero |
| RELIC | Something surviving the past |
| RELICT | Although surviving, the recital has a bit missing |
| WEATHERING | Surviving the elements in Galway |
| EASYLIVING | It's not difficult surviving the life of Riley (4,6) |
| EXISTING | Surviving outlet detailed swindle (8) |
| CUTTY | - Sark; preserved in Greenwich as a memorial to the Merchant Navy and monument to the age of sail, the last surviving tea clipper, once the fastest ship of her time (5) |
| TOMB | The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Thetford, is the only surviving remains in England of a priory who aided pilgrims to Christ's ... (4) |
| ROBERTVAUGHN | Actor who died in December 2016, the last surviving member of the original Magnificent Seven in the 1960 film |
| EXECUTANT | Performer surviving without French money in the old days (9) |
| KING | Jimmy __, the only surviving member of his family in the Dales! (4) |
| DAVIDII | Born in 1324, the only surviving son of Robert the Bruce (5,1,1) |
| WILLS | Word linking with "craft" for the skill of surviving in the wild (5) |
| TEMPLEBAR | The only surviving gateway to the City of London, completed in 1672 (6,3) |
| RELICS | Items surviving from the past (6) |
