| RANELAGH | The pleasure gardens in Chelsea, alongside the Thames, opened to the public in the mid-18th century (8) |
| GRENFELL | Actress who played Ruby Gates in the St Trinian's films, the gym mistress in The Happiest Days of Your Life and also wrote Requests the Pleasure (8) |
| ANNERICE | "The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain" |
| DOA | 2005 Foo Fighters single with the line "Been a pleasure, but the pleasure's been mine, all mine" (3) |
| DELIGHT | The pleasure the Turkish take in a sweet |
| OUTSHINING | Superior to the stewing beef during the pleasure trip (10) |
| ABSENCE | Sonnet 97: How like a winter hath my ___ been / From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! / What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen! / What old December's bareness everywhere! |
| MERGER | The pleasure of your company: It's the result of a couple of corporations getting legally hitched |
| PARK | Leave the car at the pleasure-ground (4) |
| FAIR | The ruffian disrupted a function on the pleasure grounds (3,4) |
| FUN | The ruffian disrupted a function on the pleasure grounds (3,4) |
| CRUISER | Guardian of the seas for the pleasure tripper (7) |
| EGO | One of Freud's three agents of the psyche introduced in his 1920 essay Beyond the Pleasure Principle (3) |
| ASTEN | Author who wrote "One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other" |
| JANEAUSTEN | "One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other" (____) |
| OFHIS | 1961 movie, The Pleasure ___ Company" |
| ISALL | "The pleasure ___ mine" |
| NUMAN | "The Pleasure Principle" Gary |
| LEAS | Meadows in the pleasure gardens (4) |
| SATISFACTION | The pleasure of compensation |
