| LUMINARIES | Time and Life founder's written about colliery's glows (10) |
| LUCE | Founder of Time and Life |
| BLOOMSBURY | - Group; depicted in Carrington and Life in Squares, an artistic set who often gathered at Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant's country home Charleston (10) |
| JANEJACOBS | Author of "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" |
| PALMREADER | Examiner of heart and life lines |
| OSCARISSAC | Star Wars: The Force Awakens, X-Men: Apocalypse, Inside Llewyn Davis, Ex Machina and Life Itself are films in which this Guatemalanborn US actor starred (5,5) |
| STIPEND | Stop after colliery's returned salary |
| FAMINE | Fellow facing a colliery's shortage of essential supplies (6) |
| COAL | Colliery's output |
| WHITMAN | Poet whose compendium and life-work Leaves of Grass includes I Sing the Body Electric, Song of Myself and To Think of Time (7) |
| BIOGRAPHY | New boy and I accept graph and life story (9) |
| REVEILLE | Wake-up call about mask and life on the outside (8) |
| PALMAR | Father left mother? Right about the point where fate and life collide? (6) |
| SNOOPDOGGS | With 28-Across: three-part docuseries that premieres tomorrow night on E! (it deals with 1- and 5-Across's wedding plans and life afterwards) |
| PYTHON | Comedy team that gave us The Meaning Of Life and Life Of Brian, Monty ... |
| WATTS | Victorian artist whose paintings include Hope, Love and Life and Choosing (a portrait of his wife Ellen Terry) (5) |
| RULES | John Irving novel (and Tobey Maguire film) of love and life on an apple farm, The Ciderhouse ... |
| ANGLEE | Taiwanese-born director whose films include Sense and Sensibility, Brokeback Mountain and Life of Pi (3,3) |
| THYSELF | Sonnet 92: But do thy worst to steal ___ away, / For term of life thou are assured mine, / And life no longer than thy love will stay, / For it depends upon that love of thine. |
| SUN | 'The hearth of affection and life': Arthur Rimbaud |