| INVOLVE | Embrace with hot, very soppy love (7) |
| MAWKISH | Mouth gets kiss from drunken lips, very soppy |
| SATURATED | Very soppy, like a family film after son cheers up (9) |
| ANCHOVY | A new firm accepts hot, very unknown, strong ingredient (7) |
| LUSTRED | The hots - very hot - must be given a gloss (7) |
| DREDGER | Sort of greed medical man will embrace with craft (7) |
| HOLIDAY | Half-term perhaps finding one in embrace with a Yankee (7) |
| EAGERLY | ... turning, say, soon to embrace with desire (7) |
| BEARHUG | A hearty embrace with both arms; or, a wrestling "bodylock" clinch (4,3) |
| HUDDLES | Secret meetings? Don’t get caught in embraces with husband |
| MAUDLIN | 'The Lady-Love Returns' is soppy! (7) |
| CALYPSO | Song about love includes, on reflection, oddly soppy line (7) |
| TOPICAL | Hot, very hot, though not beginning to roast (7) |
| POPCORN | Music, soppy stuff, an accompaniment for films? (7) |
| MOISTLY | As a rule, I stayed in, in soppy fashion |
| DRIEDUP | Stopped being soppy and said no more (5,2) |
| SCORCHIO | Sirocco's unusually keeping hot - very hot, according to The Fast Show's Poula (8) |
| SHRUBBERY | Small, hot, very supple set of bushes |
| INAFLASH | Last foxtrot delayed as hot very suddenly (2,1,5) |
| HOSPITAL | Clinic initially planned in hot, very large country unfinished |
