| NOW | 2013 romance, "The Spectacular -" |
| SAFE | 2013 romance starring Julianne Hough (4) |
| ABOUT | 2013 romance starring Domnhall Gleeson, - Time (5) |
| READE | Charles ___, English author best known for the historical romance The Cloister and the Hearth (1861) (5) |
| ROSE | Played in Pasadena, it's the spectacular sports event that fans await on New Year's Day: The ___ Bowl |
| SIGHT | Sense of the spectacular (5) |
| NASHE | Thomas, author of the 1594 prose romance The Unfortunate Traveller (5) |
| SPENSER | English poet best known for the allegorical romance The Faerie Queene (1590; 1596) (6,7) |
| EDMUND | English poet best known for the allegorical romance The Faerie Queene (1590; 1596) (6,7) |
| APULEIUS | 2nd-century Roman writer noted for his romance The Golden Ass, the only Latin novel that has survived in its entirety |
| VERSAILLES | Landscape architect Andre Le Notre laid out the spectacular grounds of this palace in which France's |
| HAD | Elizabeth Taylor romance, The GirlWho...Everything (3) |
| LAGOON | Brooke Shields shipwreck romance, The Blue ___ (6) |
| BODYGUARD | Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston romance, The ___ |
| WEWERE | Robert Redford romance, The Way ... (2,4) |
| AGE | Historical romance, The ...of Innocence (3) |
| BLUE | Brooke Shields shipwreck romance, The ___ Lagoon |
| WAYWE | Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford romance, The ___ Were |
| INNOCENCE | Daniel Day-Lewis and Michelle Pfeiffer romance, The Age of ... (9) |
| DOVER | Irene Dunne and Alan Marshal WWI romance, The White Cliffs of ___ |
