| YOULLBEOLDERTOO | "____ , And if you say the word, I could stay with you." |
| BUTT | Attack only when you say the word (4) |
| STAND | ___ and, if you win, you may sit (5) |
| EXCUSEME | Old flame, having change of heart, says it's my turn to say the words: "I"m sorry" (6,2) |
| ITSINTHEGAB | We've got this one! If you say the right thing? |
| PROMISSORY | Lost posy in Morris dancing - upon my word, I could be made to pay! |
| LIEIN | Neil and I could stay late in bed (3,2) |
| GOTTOGO | "Wish I could stay!" |
| WORSE | "What's ___..." ("And if that weren't bad enough...") |
| THEUPS | "Oh, I'll stay with you through ___ and the downs" (John Legend line) |
| PLAYME | Neil Diamond "You are the words, I am the tune, ___" |
| REGRET | Feeling that might accompany the words "I can't believe I ate the whole thing" |
| MAGICMAN | Heart hit with the words "I cast my spell of love on you" |
| AYER | Who wrote the songs Oh, You Beautiful Doll" (1911) and If You Were the Only Girl in the World (1916)? (4) |
| ROWDIER | "Noisier" is the word I changed back again (7) |
| INTESTATE | No, Will! That's the word I want! |
| SPIKEMILLIGAN | Irish comedian, writer and playwright, 1918-2002, whose gravestone bears the words 'I told you ! was ill', in Gaelic (5,8) |
| LYLE | Gallagher & _ _ _ _, had '70s hit with "I Wanna Stay With You" (4) |
| GALLAGHERANDLYLE | Scottish duo whose 70s hits included Heart on My Sleeve and I Wanna Stay with You |
| DALI | Speaker of the words "I don't do drugs. I am drugs." |
