| ALFIE | Chap to make a life with, nominally? (5) |
| GETSO | "Don't ___ busy making a living that you forget to make a life" |
| DUFFER | Just the chap to make a bad pudding? (6) |
| KNIGHT | Make a life peer by dubbing (6) |
| BYWHAT | "We make a life ___ ___ we give." - Sir Winston Churchill |
| FEMALE | Has she half a life with a man? |
| IRISHWAKE | *Celebration of a life, with drinks and dancing |
| FABIOCAPELLO | A life with distinction in international football encapsulated by man in short ___ me? (5,7) |
| CORVUS | 2008 nature memoir by Esther Woolfson, subtitled A Life With Birds (6) |
| GUY | A chap to make fun of? (3) |
| TED | Just the chap to make hay? (3) |
| CENTIMO | Principal director brings in northern chap to make money abroad (7) |
| EMEND | Edward brings in chaps to make changes (5) |
| CEZANNE | French artist whose works include a series of "Bather" paintings, Still Life with a Curtain, The Peppermint Bottle and Still Life with a Ginger Jar and Eggplants (7) |
| LEGER | Artist associated with the Cubists until he developed his own style dubbed "Tubism", whose works include Soldier with a Pipe and Still Life with a Beer Mug (5) |
| RIBCAGE | Presumably, this was opened to get the First Lady out to start a new life with kid from lock-up (3,4) |
| HARRY | Rom-com character who says "When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible" |
| LIABILITY | Half-life with potential to be a definite minus (9) |
| IRIS | "Still Life With _" (play with a flowery name) |
| CLOISTER | A monastic life with relics to be distributed (8) |
