| MID | 'Way' or 'wife' beginning |
| WHIP | Wife beginning to cheer for dessert |
| WHEAT | Wife's beginning with warm cereal |
| ROWBOAT | Skiff sailor returning, embracing bespectacled wife, beginning to blush (7) |
| FATWAH | Stout wife beginning to accept husband's religious ruling |
| SULTANA | Muslim ruler's wife beginning to love time in new sauna (7) |
| AUNT | My uncle's wife's beginning to abandon favourite spot (4) |
| CONSORTIUM | Word taken directly from Latin for an association, business partnership or fellowship; or, in marriage law, a husband or wife's conjugal rights (10) |
| INLAW | Brother's wife or wife's brother |
| SPOUSAL | Relating to marriage or a husband or wife (7) |
| CUSTOM | Tradition/practice of a society such as chanoyu or other tea ceremony, cheese-rolling, Jack-in-the-green, maypole-dancing or wife-carrying (6) |
| PARTNER | From an old word for "coheir", a husband or wife; either member of an established unmarried couple; an ally; or, one's accomplice in crime (7) |
| SPOUSE | From Latin for "promise solemnly" or "betroth", one's husband or wife (6) |
| CONSORT | A ship sailing with another; a companion; or, a husband or wife, especially of a reigning king/queen (7) |
| ALE | Word for a beverage, feast or festival that, when coupled with bench, bush, cost, draper, hoof, house or wife, refers to a tavern pew, a hostelry sign, beer-flavouring costmary, an innkeeper, cat's-fo |
| SISTERINLAW | Husband or wife's brother's wife (6-2-3) |
| NOTASINGLEONE | Husband or wife? |
| TROPHY | Word before hunter or wife |
| WAG | Girlfriend or wife of a famous sportsman (3) |
| MATE | Husband or wife making tea? (4) |
