| EAGERLY | ... turning, say, soon to embrace with desire |
| HUGO | Boy to embrace with love (4) |
| GECKO | Turning, say, about to flatten lizard |
| DIRGE | Director shortly turning, say, to elegy (5) |
| EROSION | Effect of sea on land, say, soon dire, sadly, with day gone (7) |
| ANNOY | Harry turning, say, on naval guards (5) |
| NONAGE | Salad Days, say, soon coming up (6) |
| GEESE | Turning say round notice, they'd want a gander |
| YARDS | Turning, say the road goes through the areas (5) |
| LOSINGSLEEP | Tossing and turning, say |
| NONAGENARIAN | Very old article on Iran, say, soon after revolution |
| SPAR | Turning, says briskly 'Fight' (4) |
| CARESS | Embrace with affection (6) |
| INVOLVE | Embrace with hot, very soppy love (7) |
| HUGER | Embrace with hesitation, being so much bigger |
| LOOKALIKE | See Hindu goddess in permitted embrace with Eastern twin? |
| HUGE | Enormous embrace with ogre at last |
| PASH | Embrace with great ardour (4) |
| DREDGER | Sort of greed medical man will embrace with craft (7) |
| VERBALHUG | Embrace with words, rather than arms |
