| LOVEHATE | Like a relationship between frenemies |
| LOVE | With 9-Across, like the relationship between frenemies |
| BROKEBACKMOUNTAIN | 2005 Western film based on a relationship between two cowboys played by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal (9,8) |
| AFFAIR | What is a relationship between two people who are not married to each other (6) |
| ONEWAY | Like a relationship with a narcissist |
| OPEN | Like a relationship where you can date other people |
| PLATONIC | Like a relationship with an ex, maybe |
| BRANDNEW | Like a relationship in the talking stage |
| MONOGAMISH | Like a relationship with some openness, in slang |
| NEW | Like a relationship that's yet to be hard-launched, maybe |
| TOMANDJERRY | Cartoon frenemies |
| TOM | ___ and Jerry (cat and mouse frenemies) |
| TIFF | Frenemies' quarrel |
| FOES | What frenemies are, in part |
| STEMMA | A garland; a family tree, genealogy or pedigree; a scroll; or, a diagram showing the relationship between a text and its existing manuscripts (6) |
| ACCOUNT | A chronicle, news report or other narrative; or, a business relationship between a bank and a customer (7) |
| OF | Relationship between a part and a whole |
| ABLETOADAPT | Flexible relationship between a tadpole and a bat (4,2,5) |
| ASPECT | Conjunction, opposition, square, sextile, trine ... a word used to describe any one of a number of angular relationships between the planets in a horoscope (6) |
| CORRELATE | Establish a mutual relationship between (things) |
