| GLOMPED | Bear-hugged, in cute slang |
| TEDDY | Bear hugged by a child |
| HANOI | Greeting with a number being hugged in foreign capital |
| ELM | Tree "hugged" in the names at 17-, 27-, 43-, and 56-Across |
| LOREN | Italian actress about to be hugged in capital (not half) (5) |
| INCIDENTALMUSIC | ... and slim in cute pants, in charge for film soundtrack, maybe |
| LUCKIEST | Most fortunate in cute silk dress (8) |
| LONGU | Extended vowel sound, as in "cute" |
| KITCHENUNITS | Thinks in cute ways about domestic cupboards (7,5) |
| MOLECULARWEIGHT | Mass based on C playing in cute Wigmore Hall |
| AUTHENTIC | Genuine hat in cute condition (9) |
| ASWEETTOOTH | Taste for sugar in cute canine? (1,5,5) |
| ETA | Evident in cute tailor's letter from Greece (3) |
| ADULTEDUCATION | Flattery overwhelms daughter in cute pants, it's learnt later (5,9) |
| PRETTILY | Newborn pigs curling up within confines of pigsty, in cute way |
| CUTITFINE | Almost leave it too late to fit in cute trick (3,2,4) |
| PENANG | Grandma hugged by Margaret in in a state (6) |
| RABAT | One sailor hugged by another revolutionary in capital (5) |
| APPROACHED | Brave daughter, in favour of being hugged, came closer |
| THESAURUS | Isaac's son hugged by short bird in book |
