| BIOMASS | Amount of life as mob is unruly (7) |
| SYMBIOTIC | Interdependent, as mob is with city criminal (9) |
| LIKING | Fondness for fair amount of life in The Palace (6) |
| BLOGGED | Commentated online as mob finally felled trees (7) |
| FAME | Celebrity starts to flourish as mob emerges (4) |
| SAMSARA | Concept of life as an ongoing cycle of death and rebirth, central to religions such as Buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism (7) |
| GOLLOCH | Beginning of history, reviewing chronology taking in first sign of life as 11Dn - see 24dn (5,7) |
| REALISM | Acceptance of life as it is |
| RIOTOUS | A Brazilian city, to us, is unruly (7) |
| SIGNAGE | Notices drug mob is on the rise (7) |
| OMNIBUS | Flourishing UN mob is inclusive (7) |
| MEERKAT | Suricate living in groups known as mobs or gangs in the Kalahari Desert (7) |
| HORNY | Beginning of history, reviewing chronology taking in first sign of life as 11Dn - w 21dn (5,7) |
| CATCHONESBREATH | Is this what the doctor will do looking for signs of life - as for the rest? (5,3'1,6) |
| COFFEETEAORME | Trudy Baker's account of life as a stewardess |
| UPSANDDOWNS | Vicissitudes of life, as for the inventor named in the circled squares? |
| FIESTA | Celebration of life, as a tear regularly gets shed (6) |
| OLGAKORBUT | Gymnastics was given a new lease of life as a sport by which gymnast at the 1972 Olympics? (4,6) |
| VERISMO | "Taxi Driver" is mostly expressing life as art in music (7) |
| SHOVES | Is unruly in a crowd |
