| HOOKS | Bell, the feminist luminary with lower case names who wrote "All About Love" (or stuff of a fish's nightmares, buried in bait) |
| TOWELRAIL | I wrote all about a bathroom feature |
| MATTER | Physical substance, perhaps dark or anti; or, "stuff" of importance (6) |
| LAMPOON | Satirise luminary with nothing on (7) |
| BACONANDEGGS | Such as may be the stuff of a classic English flower (5-3-4) |
| ALUM | Stuff of a styptic pencil |
| ROMANCE | Carmen crazy about love, or some such story (7) |
| ACHE | GH is all about love and heart___. |
| CALLOUS | Developed thick skin about love, or just cold-hearted? |
| STATE | Start of many criminal case names |
| VERSUS | What the v. stands for in Supreme Court case names |
| INSPITEOF | Notwithstanding fine, tips freely: "It's all about love" (2,5,2) |
| DISCOVERED | Found smashing Easter service taken by theologian - it's all about love (10) |
| INRE | Phrase in some court case names |
| CLICHE | Tight-knit group not half supported by revolutionary stuff of a trite nature (6) |
| TONGUE | The clapper of a bell; the pin of a buckle; a flap of leather on a shoe; or, a jet of flame (6) |
| POE | Who wrote "All that we see or seem / Is but a dream within a dream" |
| SCIPIO | Slow march of the Grenadier Guards, taken from a Handel opera about a Roman general of the same name, who defeated Hannibal |
| TINKLES | Gets a sensation with the sound of a small bell the French have attached (7) |
| SALEM | The first of several sultans of this name, who ruled 1512-20 and raised the Ottomans to leadership of the Muslim world (5) |
