| ONEEYED | Partial to love and want to hold you in the oldfashioned way (3-4) |
| PARVENU | Parent partial to love goddess - short like Napolean? (7) |
| LACKEYS | More than one servant wants to hold you up (7) |
| ESPOUSED | Married in the oldfashioned way (8) |
| BEGOT | Had a child in the oldfashioned way? (5) |
| CONTEMPT | A judge may hold you in this |
| DREAMER | In the US, someone who arrived in the country illegally as a child, identifies as American, and wants to become legal (7) |
| THISBOY | Beatles song released in 1963 as the B-side of the single I Want to Hold Your Hand (4,3) |
| FRIENDS | From an ancient root meaning "to love" and first recorded in the Old English poem Beowulf, one's allies, chums, comrades or privados (7) |
| NEEDSTO | Must have something, and wants to finish it (5,2) |
| LEGIRON | What's required to get rid of creases in trousers? It could hold you prisoner (3,4) |
| BEATLES | "Meet the ___!" (album with the song "I Want to Hold Your Hand") |
| OPINION | The way I see it; love can hold you down (7) |
| CORSAGE | Can it help hold you together if you sag in the middle? (7) |
| RINGLET | There's little call for the oldfashioned look in hair (7) |
| INKPOTS | In which the oldfashioned pens were dipped before writing (7) |
| MANACLE | It's singularly useful when you want to hold hands |
| ENDOWED | Aim to love and marry with a dowry (7) |
| TOASTED | Drank to love and savoured, imbibing (7) |
| PRITHEE | Please put in an oldfashioned way (7) |
