| BIOLOGIST | Student of life is too glib, in a way (9) |
| BOWLING | Sport, now glib in a way (7) |
| BILINGUAL | Glib in movement, turn to a student with two tongues (9) |
| MICKEYROONEY | 'Life Is Too Short' autobiographer |
| IGNOBLE | "Do not waste your time with music that is trite or ____. Life is too short to spend it wandering in the barren Saharas of musical trash" (Sergei Rachmaninov) |
| PASSED | "Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is _ in sleep": Lord Byron (6) |
| BLINKOFANEYE | "The story of life is quicker than the ___, the story of life is hello, goodbye." Jimi Hendrix (5,2,2,3) |
| CARS | Pixar film with a cover of "Life Is a Highway" |
| OBLIGATO | A too glib order address to musicians (8) |
| NATURALIST | Turn tail as troubled student of life (10) |
| BIOSCIENTIST | Student of life misused Bitcoins site |
| PHYSIOLOGIST | Shy to go, I lisp about student of life (12) |
| BELIEF | To be full of life is a credit to you (6) |
| GOAL | "The _ _ _ of life is living in agreement with nature" (Zeno) |
| BREAD | The staff of life is needed in preparation, one hears (5) |
| EDEN | Where the tree of life is located in the Bible |
| MARTINETBIOLOGIST | Strict student of life sciences? |
| ERICIDLE | Always Look on the Bright Side of Life is a 2018 autobiography by this comedian |
| NEMESIS | Flipping source of life is plague (7) |
| FEISTY | Spirited slice of life is typical (6) |
