| CANDLELIT | Called nit out in romantic setting (9) |
| UNITEDNATIOSS | Send nit out in a mix-up at international body (6,7) |
| UNITEDNATIONS | Send nit out in a mix-up at international body (6,7) |
| PORTION | Helping the poor nit out (7) |
| RURITANIA | Ruin tiara's display in romantic setting (9) |
| STARLIT | Begin nursing head of loved one in romantic setting (7) |
| CANDLELIGHT | Is happiness able to hold liberal in romantic setting? |
| KISSINGGATE | Is Carol first to get caught by another girl in romantic setting? |
| DESOLATES | Miss, turning tail in romantic assignations, makes upset (9) |
| MELODRAMA | Do alarm me performing in romantic play (9) |
| ROCHESTER | List covering revolutionary character in romantic novel (9) |
| DESPERATE | Hopeless peers ruined in romantic assignation (9) |
| LOVENESTS | Sloven set to be led astray in romantic hideaways (4-5) |
| LOVESTORY | Adores Portillo, perhaps, in romantic tale (4,5) |
| VALENTINO | He appeared speechless, cast in romantic role |
| DATENIGHT | Fruity thing and naughty thing united in romantic event |
| ELOPEMENT | Copper, say, taking work in romantic escape |
| HUGHGRANT | "Paddington 2" actor who says, "I'm too old and ugly to be the young leading man in romantic comedies now, thank God": 2 wds. |
| MOONLIGHT | Romantic setting not much favoured by smugglers (9) |
| AROMA | Pleasant fragrance in a romantic setting (5) |
