| BLINDDATE | Little love being returned in bed, daughter's instead accepted alternative liaison? (5,4) |
| ABOLISHES | Stops one throw being returned in cricket series (9) |
| IRONORE | Nero and I could have accepted alternative raw material (4,3) |
| SURVEY | Study of disease eliminated main cause - accepted alternative, finally (6) |
| GIFT | Item being returned in the three longest Across answers |
| ETNA | Risk money being returned in volatile location |
| COURTESAN | Can't rouse troubled lady in liaison? (9) |
| NOBRAINER | Sad loner in bar needs a little love! That's obvious (2-7) |
| EMENDATOR | He corrects me in the end, rota being returned (9) |
| ELABORATE | Fancy the parcel being returned with zero charge! (9) |
| REELECTED | Making a small adjustment, contemplated being returned to office (2-7) |
| ZOOKEEPER | One's concerned with gander, escape curtailed, being returned? |
| BLOODBATH | Massacre family over hotel bill being returned (9) |
| SIDELIGHT | Car's lamp is being returned with pleasure |
| BACKBENCH | Being returned, settle as such an MP? |
| ELECTABLE | Delightful daughter missing: with prospect of being returned? |
| AFFAIR | Was one fellow impartial in a romantic liaison? (6) |
| MICHELLE | Who won a Bafta in 1990 for her role in the film Dangerous Liaisons? (8,8) |
| PFEIFFER | Who won a Bafta in 1990 for her role in the film Dangerous Liaisons? (8,8) |
| DIMPLE | Slight depression is plain with daughter instead of son |
