| EDWINACURRIE | Former Tory MR who had an affair with John Major (6,6) |
| SAMLOMAX | Hollyoaks police officer who found out her husband had been having an affair with John Paul McQueen (3,5) |
| BACKTOBASICS | John Major's political slogan (4,2,6) |
| WILLIAMHAGUE | John Major's successor as leader of the Conservative party |
| PICASSO | Cubist who had an affair with Coco Chanel |
| PAUL | Ramsay Street man who had an affair with Priya Kapoor before she died (4,8) |
| FRANKIE | Hollyoaks woman who had an affair with Ziggy Roscoe (7,7) |
| LANCELOT | Knight who had an affair with Guinevere (8) |
| FEVOLA | Blues forward who had an affair with Lara Bingle, Brendan ... (6) |
| GEORGESAND | French novelist who had an affair with Frederic Chopin |
| RIMBAUD | Arthur --, 19c French poet who had an affair with Verlaine (7) |
| GUINEVERE | Legendary queen consort of King Arthur who had an affair with Sir Lancelot |
| PROFUMO | Politician who had an affair with Christine Keeler (7) |
| SOPHIA | ___ Loren: Italian actress who had an affair with Cary Grant (6) |
| GLOVER | Dave ___, classic character who had an affair with Kim Tate in the 90s in Emmerdale (6) |
| TRACY | Steve McDonald's estranged wife who had an affair with his footballing hero Tommy in Coronation Street (5) |
| GIGGS | Surname of Natasha who had an affair with her footballer husband's brother and appeared on Celebrity Big Brother in 2012 (5) |
| REBECCALOOS | Reality TV star who reportedly had an affair with David Beckham |
| LIPPI | Reluctant Florentine friar-turned-painter who executed a cycle of frescoes in Prato Cathedral and had an affair with a nun (5) |
| JFK | He had an affair with Mimi Fahnestock |