| MYLOVE | "___ is like a red, red rose" |
| RIPE | Like a red Red Delicious |
| MELROSE | Wee Melanie gets a red, red flower in a Borders town (7) |
| SIMILE | "My love is like a red, red rose," e.g. |
| BURNS | *"O my Luve is like a red, red rose..." |
| LUVE | "My -- is like a red..." |
| SIMILES | "My Luve's like a red red rose" and others |
| ROBE | Indoor outerwear: A ___ is like a overcoat for a person wearing her 1D |
| GARDEN | With all kinds of veggies growing in rows, a backyard ___ is like a buffet for bunnies |
| LIFE | "___ is like a box of chocolates", Forrest Gump quote (4) |
| SLEEP | "___ is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it": Gillian Flynn |
| STEW | "Red red" is a Ghanaian bean ___ made with tomato paste, red palm oil, seasonings (and often meat or seafood), served with a side of fried plantains |
| LANCASHIRE | English county whose symbol is a red rose (10) |
| BULL | It's like a red rag to a ___, saying (4) |
| SOARED | So, a red rose! (6) |
| CHEF | A sous-___ is like the director of operations in a busy restaurant kitchen |
| ALORD | "Being ___ is like being a father..." (Game of Thrones) |
| MISMATCH | Incompatible couple, like a red sock and a blue sock, perhaps (8) |
| DRINKINGSONGS | Enjoying a happy hour with relatives outside front garden to the sounds of Whiskey in the Jar and Red, Red Wine (8,5) |
| GALLICA | An ancient or old-fashioned variety of fragrant bloom, such as the blush-pink Duchesse d'Angouleme, the cassis Cardinal de Richelieu or the crimson apothecary's rose, aka Officinalis or red rose of La |
