| AMORALLY | Casually place arm round love and her friend, in an unprincipled manner (8) |
| SALAMI | Tasty and produced by Sally and her friend in France (6) |
| EWES | Maa and her friends, in the 1995 film Babe (4) |
| OPAL | Turn round, love, and you'll see it's iridescent (4) |
| DRYMARTINI | Place arm in dirty drink |
| EXPLORER | Animated US TV series about a girl and her friend, a monkey called Boots (4,3,8) |
| PROROGUE | Discontinue the meeting until next session to please an unprincipled guy (8) |
| ROSALIND | Shakespeare heroine who dressed as a man flees with her friend Celia in As You Like It |
| FORMALLY | School friend in an official capacity (8) |
| ABUDHABI | Accepted timeless custom to welcome friend in an Emirate (3,5) |
| HYACINTH | Mrs Bucket, to her friends? (8) |
| DORATHE | Animated US TV series about a girl and her friend, a monkey called Boots (4,3,8) |
| EDEN | Eve and her friend lived in this garden (4) |
| PUERTORICO | In West Side Story, from which island do the families of Maria and her friends come? (6,4) |
| SEXANDTHECITY | TV series about writer Carrie Bradshaw and her friends with the 2021 revival And Just Like That ...: 4 wds. |
| POPPY | Scrapbooking, singing and her friends are the most important things to this movie character. |
| PINOT | Wine and beer will be coming round, love (5) |
| GASKELL | Elizabeth -; author of Cranford, North and South and a biography of her friend Charlotte Bronte (7) |
| COLDMOUNTAIN | 2003 film in which Renee Zellweger plays a woman helping her friend save her farm: 2 wds. |
| AMATEUR | It's unprofessional to place close friend in an old city (7) |
