| CASABLANCA | Classic romance from 1942 |
| JANEEYRE | Charlotte Bronte's classic romance (4,4) |
| GONE | --- with the Wind, classic romance (4) |
| STORY | Classic romance movie, Love ... |
| EYRE | Jane -, classic romance novel (4) |
| LORNA | ___ Doone, classic romance novel (5) |
| KANE | Classic Orson Welles movie from 1942, Citizen ---- (4) |
| ETERNITY | Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr wartime romance, From Here to ___ |
| EARLIER | Listener wants story - prime bit of romance from a previous era? |
| LEOPOLD | Kate & _, fantasy romance from 2002 with Meg Ryan (7) |
| HASTE | Wedded at leisure the elopers weren't: as in Cathy Maxwell's classic romance? (7,2,5) |
| MARRIEDIN | Wedded at leisure the elopers weren't: as in Cathy Maxwell's classic romance? (7,2,5) |
| CRUZEIRO | Standard currency of Brazil from 1942-67 (8) |
| QUISLING | Vidkun -, ministerpresident of Norway from 1942-45 (8) |
| ROSWELL | US city in New Mexico that housed the Walker Air Force Base from 1942-67 (7) |
| KING | Ernest -, US Chief of Naval Operations from 1942-45 (4) |
| GUADALCANAL | The largest of the Solomon Islands, occupied by the Japanese from 1942 to 1943 (11) |
| ALBERTSPEER | German architect who was Minister of Armaments and War Production of Nazi Germany from 1942 to 1945 |
| SMERSH | Russian counter-intelligence organisation existing from 1942 to 1946 (6) |
| BADER | Douglas ---, World War II RAF fighter ace who was a prisoner of war in Colditz from 1942-45 (5) |
