| CATALINA | 'The island of romance,' in song |
| DEARTH | Want touch of romance in the end (6) |
| RURITANIA | Hope to create a land of romance, in the past (9) |
| LEARN | Discover source of romance in British film director (5) |
| GREGORYPECK | Actor's pass with a hint of romance in dreary kiss (7,4) |
| NEARNESS | The ___ of You, song by Hoagy Carmichael and Ned Washington featured in the 1938 film Romance in the Dark |
| AROMA | The beginnings of a romance in the air? (5) |
| AMOUR | Romance, in one of the Romance languages |
| LOVEBIRDS | Are they responsible for the romance in the air? (9) |
| HOOKSUP | Finds romance in the embrace of macho? OK, Superman! |
| YORKILOVE | Collective movie of 11 short vignettes about romance in the Big Apple, New ___ You (4,1,4) |
| AFFRIC | Leading characters in action film find romance in crisis in a glen (6) |
| SERENADE | Romance in the air? (8) |
| AWALK | Keanu Reeves romance, ... in the Clouds (1,4) |
| LOVEBIRD | With it, is there always romance in the air? (8) |
| SOMMELIER | Wine waiter's romance, in embrace of German actress |
| HIGHLANDFLING | Drunk to secure romance in dance in Inverness |
| DIGEST | I had written about romance in the abstract |
| AMOR | Romance, in a Romance language |
| PAM | Jim and ___ (central romance in "The Office") |