| OLIVEOIL | Love, as it happens, duck with the Italian dressing (5,3) |
| MALLARD | This duck with the characteristic green head may be the ancestor of all domestic duck breeds |
| TEAL | The duck, with the open "21," gets free (4) |
| DOUBLE | Supporter on The Hill consumes duck with the foreign drink, a large one (6) |
| TWILIGHT | With the Italian during tense period towards the end of the day? (8) |
| VINEGARY | Like much Italian dressing |
| OLIVE | This girl's in love, as it happens (5) |
| UNTANGLE | With lots of mess, create kinky nudity with the Italian man (8) |
| MONORAIL | Roman observers primarily unhappy with the Italian transport system |
| LIMEKILN | Fruit cocktail with the Italian Negroni on top of oven (8) |
| BOLIVIAN | South American overlooking shortened green with the Italian flower (8) |
| CIVILITY | Formal politeness shown by four with the Italian in London, say (8) |
| ISOLATES | Cuts off one's love as let out (8) |
| REINDEER | Sounds like wet weather, love, as they come for Christmas? (8) |
| ANALYSIS | Absurdly silly to dismiss puppy love as "crushes", irrelevant in retrospect before breakdown (8) |
| ADORES | Dares to love, as it were (6) |
| MANTEL | Author of A Change of Climate and An Experiment in Love as well as the Cromwell trilogy comprising Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror and the Light (6) |
| BAMBOO | Possibly shoots ducks with the graduate doctor (6) |
| ZOO | Where you might find a couple of ducks with the zebra (3) |
| AND | ... with some Italian dressing (3) |
