| ITENDSWITHUS | 2016 novel by 33-Across featuring a love triangle with florist Lily her boyfriend and an old flame: 4 wds. |
| MAYBESOMEDAY | 2014 novel by 33-Across featuring a love triangle with college student Sydney her boyfriend and her neighbor: 2 wds. |
| DECAEN | Name of anemone group, popular with florists - Ed disturbed with cane (2,4) |
| ANNAKARENINA | Title character in a love triangle with two men named Alexei |
| HUMPBACK | There's a Whale Pavilion in #18 Across featuring a reconstruction of a 52-foot skeleton of what type of whale? |
| MIDDLEMARCH | Novel by 33 Across |
| SILASMARNER | Novel by 33 Across |
| NIGHTSCHOOL | 2016 novel by Lee Child in which Jack Reacher joins a mission to find a soldier who's cut a deal with a terrorisst: 2 wds. |
| EARTHAKITT | She sang, "I want an old-fashioned house with an old-fashioned fence and an old-fashioned millionair |
| CONCLAVE | 2024 film based on a 2016 novel by Robert Harris (8) |
| AGENTLEMAN | 2016 novel by Amor Towles whose protagonist is Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov (1,9,2,6) |
| INMOSCOW | 2016 novel by Amor Towles whose protagonist is Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov (1,9,2,6) |
| BOYCLOTHES | In 2.6, Jessica escapes from her home with the help of her of her boyfriend. What is she dressed in? |
| BREAKUPWITHHIM | 2015 Old Dominion hit urging a love interest to leave her boyfriend: 4 wds. |
| YOUNGATHEART | 1954 movie musical starring Frank Sinatra and Doris Day in a love triangle: 3 wds. |
| HERMIA | One of the characters involved in a love triangle in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (6) |
| MINERVA | Roman goddess of wisdom and strategic warfare - and an old cultivar of the subject of this week's Miscellany! (7) |
| CIAO | Acknowledgment, largely used by Italians, that can be used to say hello or goodbye - and an old variety of hemerocallis (4) |
| ALCOTT | Abolitionist and suffragist who wrote tales about Jo's boys, little women and an old-fashioned girl (6) |
| RAZORGIRL | 2016 novel by Carl Hiaasen |
