| TOUCHSTONE | Fool in Shakespeare's play As You Like It who falls in love with a shepherdess called Audrey |
| PEEPBO | A "now you see me, now you don't" game delighted in by a tot or a baby; or, if rearranged, a shepherdess they sing about, maybe (4-2) |
| AMARYLLIS | Name in pastoral poetry for a shepherdess or country girl (9) |
| ROSALIND | Heroine of Shakespeare's As You Like It, who disguises herself as a man (8) |
| JAQUES | Character in As You Like It who delivers the 'All the world's a stage' speech |
| ORLANDO | Youngest son of Old Sir Rowland de Boys in Shakespeare's As You Like It, who marries Rosalind (7) |
| CRESSIDA | In a Shakespeare play, a Trojan woman who falls in love with one of King Priam's sons (8) |
| DIE | Dramatic love story of a German who falls in love but must return to the trenches, A Time To Love And A Time To ... |
| OLIVIA | Character in Twelfth Night who falls in love with Viola when disguised as a page (6) |
| TRAMP | Dog in a 1956 Disney animated film who falls in love with a beautiful Cocker Spaniel (5) |
| ARDEN | The Forest of ... in Warwickshire features in the Shakespeare play As You Like It (5) |
| BENEDICK | Bachelor who falls in love with Beatrice in the William Shakespeare play Much Ado about Nothing (8) |
| BALLERINA | Character who falls in love with a boxer in an Oscar-nominated animated short from Anton Dyakov |
| COPPELIA | Which ballet tells the story of a young man who falls in love with a mechanical doll? (8) |
| ONDINE | Ballet based on the story of a naiad who falls in love with a mortal man (6) |
| PYGMALION | Sculptor in Ovid's Metamorphoses who falls in love with a statue he has made (9) |
| MENATALIE | 1969 movie about a woman who falls in love with an aspiring painter in Greenwich Village that marked Al Pacino's debut: 2 wds. |
| FLORIZEL | Son of Polixenes, King of Bohemia, who falls in love with Perdita in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale |
| ROCHESTER | Edward, fictional character who falls in love with the title character in Jane Eyre (9) |
| ADACLARE | Young ward of Chancery in Charles Dickens's novel Bleak House who falls in love with Richard Carstone |
