| OVERAGAIN | Forces sweetheart to earn nothing up front repeatedly |
| OVERAWED | Forces sweetheart to get married after love subdued |
| THEPIANO | NZ film actor forgoes salary up-front to earn nothing (3,5) |
| OCEANOGRAPHY | Loose change - or pay with nothing up front for deep study |
| OLIVE | With nothing up front, wickedness is backed by oil-producer (5) |
| VERA | __ Lynn, the forces' sweetheart (4) |
| LYNN | Vera, the Forces' Sweetheart (4) |
| OVERAWE | Cause astonishment in old forces' sweetheart with energy (7) |
| VERALYNN | English singer nicknamed the Forces' Sweetheart during World War II (4,4) |
| DAME | The "Forces' Sweetheart" (4,4,4) |
| VISCERA | Forces' sweetheart is a hundred at heart - that shows guts (7) |
| EBBTIDE | It's a drop in the ocean for sweetheart to go to hostelry to get it back to Germany (3,4) |
| EASIEST | It's most comfortable sweetheart, to sleep back to front (7) |
| TRUELOVE | Genuine sweetheart to regret nothing after termination of engagement (4,4) |
| KEELOVER | Shout of fright goes up, getting sweetheart to faint? |
| DONATELLO | Sculptor's sweetheart to reveal nothing (9) |
| PLEASE | Appeals to a sweetheart to be nice |
| ELEVATOR | Sweetheart to travel awkwardly around ocean - it's one way of getting to the top! (8) |
| ENORMOUS | It's very big of sweetheart to take model to Oxygen with you and I (8) |
| PINKEYE | I had to take my sweetheart to the GP right in the centre of Liskeard last Monday -- it turned out she had conjunctivitis (4-3) |
