| PEARDROP | By the sound of it, couple fall for sweet (4,4) |
| CHER | Half of rock's '60s "it" couple, per Time |
| PRIVATELIVES | A divorced couple fall back in love in this Noël Coward play |
| PASTILLE | Out of sorts, stick around for sweet |
| LOLLIPOP | Money, we hear, used by father for sweet on stick (8) |
| FRUITGUM | Canna pulls out of manufacturing ingredients for sweet (5,3) |
| DOUGHNUT | Money used by head for sweet food (8) |
| WRAPPERS | Cellophane covers for sweets and chocolates; paper bands for rolled newspapers; or, dust jackets for books (8) |
| CONTEMPT | Disdain for sweet-talk after rip-off (8) |
| APPLEPIE | Perfect order for sweet? (5-3) |
| BULLSEYE | One seeing what's going to be charged for sweet |
| AROMATIC | For sweet- smelling actor, I am changing (8) |
| ICECREAM | Mice race round for sweet food |
| GLYCEROL | Dissolute clergy look around for sweet stuff |
| TIRAMISU | Atrium is prepared for sweet stuff (8) |
| PERSICOT | Prices to change for sweet beverage (8) |
| SMARTIES | Males turning up with relations for sweets (8) |
| ALLSORTS | Every possible anagram for 'sweets'? (8) |
| PUDDINGS | Clock chimes with party retiring for sweets |
| BOX | Be it a bonbonniere for sweets, a caddy for tea, a papeterie for stationery or Pandora's chest containing little that's good, it's a word for a pyx, originally made from Buxus wood (3) |