2 down
Personified
Space
Boy
briefly,
then
kicked
the
bucket
(8)
Personified Space Boy briefly, then kicked the bucket (8)
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How the clue works
The definition is Personified — as in given bodily form. Then the wordplay builds it up piece by piece: EM is a printer's space, BO is Boy cut short (that's the "briefly"), and DIED is "kicked the bucket".