| TIMEITWAS | "I didn't know what ...; Then I met you; Oh, what a lovely time it was; How sublime it was too" (4,2 |
| OHTHAT | "Ah, I didn't know what you were referring to" |
| KELMAN | James, Scottish novelist who won the 1994 Booker Prize for How Late It Was, How Late (6) |
| LITTLEWOOD | Theatre Workshop co-founder remembered for her 1963 musical production Oh, What a Lovely War! (10) |
| UNMUSICAL | Hard to listen to peacekeepers on "Oh, What a Lovely War"? |
| DISPEL | It was how she lisped that made them scatter! |
| EXPLAIN | "You ask how much I need you, must I ...? I need you, oh my darling, like roses need rain," sang Joh |
| INEED | "You ask how much ... you, must I explain? I need you, oh my darling, like roses need rain," sang Jo |
| LOVEME | "Let me call you Sweetheart; I'm in love with you; Let me hear you whisper that you ... too" (4,2) |
| FIDDLERSDRAM | British folk band who had a 1979 top ten hit with Day Trip to Bangor (Didn't We Have A Lovely Time) (8,4) |
| FISHBURNE | This actor was only fourteen years old when he won a role in Apocalypse Now - he was seventeen by the time it was shot; Laurence ... |
| WAITRESS | "You were working as a ___ in a cocktail bar / when I met you" |
| WISHYOUWEREHERE | Quiet solver was man in Telegraph having a lovely time? (4,3,4,4) |
| HAD | I've ___ a lovely time |
| YEOVALLEY | I had a lovely time last year travelling around this area in Somerset (3,6) |
| DIDNT | "I ___ Know What Time It Was" |
| FACE | Whenever anyone asked the clock what time it was, he answered, "You can tell by the look on my ___" |
| TWOCITIES | The Charles Dickens novel with the opening line, 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of time |
| OFTWO | 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times' is the first line in A Tale ... Cities (2,3) |
| MUTE | How I met you and was struck dumb (4) |
