| TWOTIME | Cheat on couple with US magazine (3-4) |
| ONETIME | Former individual on U.S. magazine (3-4) |
| ARDUOUS | A royal couple with us being difficult (7) |
| TWAIN | An old-time couple with US humorist Mark (5) |
| DECIDUOUS | Start of last month: couple with us like certain trees (9) |
| IMPAIRS | Spoils regular film on couples (7) |
| TIMEOUT | US magazine published in period off work (4,3) |
| AIRTIME | A US magazine covering US city with no set slot? (7) |
| ANYTIME | A US magazine covering US city with no set slot? (7) |
| READERS | Top-selling US magazine, ... Digest |
| ESQUIRE | US magazine founded in 1932 by David A Smart and Arnold Gingrich |
| NEEDLEANDTHREAD | Irritate with yarn on couple found by a sewer? (6-3-6) |
| COLDFEET | With James Nesbitt, Fay Ripley, Hermione Norris and others, a Mike Bullen comedy drama series based on couples and relationships (4,4) |
| ASISEEIT | In my opinion, absent relative is on couple of drugs and it is extreme (2,1,3,2) |
| MARKTWAIN | Make an impression on couple digesting a writer of adventure novels (4,5) |
| UNOPENED | Organisation has nothing on couple of writers and that's sealed (8) |
| GHERAO | Muse, wasting time on couple I must follow and trap in room |
| METIER | Calling on couple, directed the wrong way (6) |
| CHEROKEE | Native American singer gets fine on couple of Es (8) |
| BRACELET | Check on couple in charmed circle? (8) |
