| BREAKTHESPELL | Kiss a frog, so it's said |
| PRINCE | What you get if you kiss a frog, according to fairy tales |
| CLEARONESTHROAT | Remove a frog so that one can speak more distinctly (5,4,6) |
| PECK | Quarter of a bushel; a strike or take of grain with a beak; a perfunctory kiss; a tongue-twisting amount of pickled peppers; food; or, a mickle (4) |
| WHOLEPARTING | A kiss, a hug, a wave, the works? |
| BIGRED | Gum with a jingle that began, "So kiss a little longer" |
| ATSIXES | Sadness with it, a drunk stealing kiss, a fair chance disorderly (2,5,3,6) |
| AKISS | "You must remember this, ___ is still a kiss, a sigh is just..." |
| KOPECK | It is all right to return with a kiss, a Russian coin (6) |
| RECAP | "Before the Kiss, a ___" (Blue Oyster Cult) |
| KEITHURBAN | Singer with the 2009 single "Kiss a Girl": 2 wds. |
| IBEX | I live to kiss a goat (4) |
| NEXT | Kiss a number, coming back round after that (4) |
| FISHCAKES | Kiss a chef stirring food for snack (4,5) |
| BUSS | Kiss a schoolmistress who wouldn't like it? |
| BESO | Kiss a senorita |
| OXALATE | ....love to kiss a behind that's salty! |
| ANNEX | Kiss a girl before one is attached (5) |
| LEIA | "I'd just as soon kiss a Wookiee" speaker |
| REX | About to kiss a boy |