| HAPPYMARRIAGE | I wrote paragraph about my sweetheart - we'll never get divorced on account of this |
| CAUSERIE | French "chat, gossip" that evolved into a conversational paragraph about literature or art; or, an informal meandering essay in the style of Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (8) |
| ABOVEPAR | Ace paragraph about cattle's cut in -- quite good (5,3) |
| PILLAR | Short paragraph about off-colour column (6) |
| COATHANGER | Ulster may be in suspense on account of this (4,6) |
| OWINGTO | Respectfully lowering head while deposing leader on account of this |
| NUTCRACKER | Brazil may cave in on account of this |
| TESTBAN | Threat ultimately absent possibly on account of this? |
| PELOPONNESIANWAR | Thucydides wrote a seminal account of this conflict between Athens and Sparta |
| LEIPZIG | The last letter I sent to my sweetheart, a GP who has a large place in the centre of Devizes, was about organising our trip to a place in Germany (7) |
| NIMMER | I visited this village near Chard in the middle of the summer last year with my sweetheart -- it was extraordinary (6) |
| WATERSTON | I want my sweetheart to leave Eastertown and move into my place near Milford Haven (9) |
| TRELOWTH | I want my sweetheart to leave Trethowel and move into my place near Polgooth (8) |
| DEAREST | There were tears when my sweetheart left Dorchester - I was distraught, he was my beloved (7) |
| SUE | "I was dreaming when I wrote this, so ___ me if I go too fast", Prince, 1999. (3) |
| POET | "My name is Philip, I am a ___ / I wrote this poem just to show it" ("Hamilton" lyric) |
| 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) |
| ENTHRAL | I'm taking my sweetheart to a large hotel near West Tockenham in order to get her full attention (7) |
| FETTLE | My sweetheart has a large cliffside place, right on the outskirts of Torpoint, which is in a terrible condition (6) |
| EVENLODE | My sweetheart loved living in the north-east, but has moved to my tiny village near Broadwell (8) |
