Possible Clues:

• Dull auntie oddly entertained by prisoner
• Not moving home to provide impetus
• Lifeless, showing no signs of activity
• Not living in a province west of China
• Wrongly maintain earl is dead
• Like a rock
• There's no life in an Ulster spouse, it would seem
• In a climax to competition I win game without life
• Single woman one colleague finds lacking in spirit
• Someone forcibly confined admitting a part of the UK is dead