| RELIT | Like the flame between exes, sometimes |
| ENDED | Like romantic relationships between exes |
| ETERNAL | Like the flame at Arlington National Cemetery |
| WYE | Letter between ex and zee |
| ALIMONY | Allowance paid between ex-partners (7) |
| NEXUS | Link between ex-Sun teammates |
| BAKE | To cook, dry or harden by the heat of the sun or fire, as practised by humans since mastering the flame; a party in the US; or, a Scottish biscuit (4) |
| MALEFACTOR | The baddie with the flame-thrower, he performs the part of |
| BLUE | The colour of the flame produced by arsenic, germanium, lead or tantalum when subjected to the gaseous part of fire (4) |
| SHEN | With jing and qi, one of the three "treasures/jewels" forming the flame, light and wick of the Taoist psyche (4) |
| ATTRACT | The flame to the moth (7) |
| AMOTH | Like __ to the flame |
| SPILL | Upset the liquid, and this will carry the flame (5) |
| ITO | Figure skater who lit the flame at the Nagano Olympics |
| CHEAPTRICK | Rock band known for the power ballad "The Flame" |
| RELATED | Told the ex the flame was coming round (7) |
| ELDER | Revolutionary communist in Paris, the keeper of the flame? (5) |
| DRAGONTREE | Source of the flame that caused the forest fire? |
| BURNER | Part of the gas stove, lamp, etc., that emits and shapes the flame |
| CLAIR | Rene, director of the film The Flame of New Orleans (5) |
