| LOVESCENES | Features of romantic comedies |
| AMY | Ms. Schumer of romantic comedies |
| MEG | Ryan of romantic comedies |
| PATHETICFALLACY | Pitiful female colleague absorbs current feature of Romantic poetry (8,7) |
| MEGRYAN | Star of a string of 1980s/90s romantic comedies including When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle (3,4) |
| RYAN | American actress, star of many romantic comedies (3,4) |
| GENRE | Romantic comedies, e.g. |
| EPHRON | Romantic comedies filmmaker Nora |
| NIA | Winnipeg romantic comedies star Ms. Vardalos |
| LOVETRIANGLE | Plot device in many romantic comedies |
| LUBITSCH | Ernst, legendary German-born director noted for his romantic comedies (8) |
| 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. |
| NEGRI | Sebastian - - - , Italy back-row who enjoys romantic comedies (5) |
| ECONOMICAID | Financial assistance terms taken from knockabout romantic comedies (8,3) |
| ROSY | Hopeful of getting both ends of romantic controversy (4) |
| UPDATING | Changing to more modern, out-of-bed sort of romantic activity? (8) |
| FRICTION | .... of discord lies with internalisation of romantic lead (8) |
| NOVELLO | Ivor ___, composer and actor of romantic musical comedies (7) |
| LETTER | Bit of romantic memorabilia |
| MILLSANDBOON | Publisher of romantic novels (5,3,4) |
