| ANGLOAMERICAN | Like the special relationship entangling a lag in romance? |
| QUAID | Actor who plays Bill Clinton in the TV movie The Special Relationship, Dennis ___ |
| NOVELETTE | See English character giving up right after refusal in romance? |
| COO | Bill's partner in romance? |
| TWOTONED | Unhappy end to tow, like The Specials? (3-5) |
| SKA | Jamaican musical genre adopted by groups like the Specials (3) |
| LONGPLAY | Record a lag in pylon production (4,4) |
| GALA | A lag in festivities? (4) |
| BREADTREE | Woody plant entangling a red beret |
| EELGRASS | Vegetation entangling a lot of grey seals? (8) |
| INSULATE | Cut off barb entangling a whale's tail (8) |
| LITOTES | One rather young to be embroiled in romances? That's an understatement |
| RATTRAP | A net/snare for catching long-tailed mouse-like murids; a place of squalor; a horribly entangling situation; or, a bike pedal with teeth or a cage (3,4) |
| SUDOKU | Couple in special relationship holding dangerous amount back: a puzzle |
| INN | As a local, having a special relationship with, we're told (3) |
| HYSTERESIS | In physics a lag between cause and effect |
| HAULAGE | In lorry business he carries a lag around Uruguay (7) |
| LEGALAID | Help in court as a lag lied outrageously (5,3) |
| SPREADEAGLE | Flat out for the harvest of rapeseed, but with a lag (6,5) |
| CONSOLE | For a lag, the only comfort (7) |
