| ARDOUR | Passion is not so easy, we 'ear (6) |
| EYEWASHES | He's easy we say for optical solutions (9) |
| HARDER | Being firmer is not so easy (6) |
| FIRMER | Wood overlooking bottomless lake not so easy to penetrate? |
| EDITOR | One of our bosses who didn't see low beam, we 'ear? (6) |
| HOARDER | Taking off, at first, is not so easy for a squirrel (7) |
| SCARCER | Unsightly patch, place to play around, is not so easy to find |
| ORSINO | A Winter's Tale character caught up in passion is romantic (6) |
| WARMTH | Passion is what rematch regularly exhibited (6) |
| PIRACY | Crime of passion is initially risque |
| EUROPE | Deal or No Deal, riding over to this continent may not be so easy after this year (6) |
| DODDLE | It is curious, in being misled, that it's so easy to accomplish it (6) |
| GREASE | The king and his luxury! So easy-going! (6) |
| SIMPLE | No compound drug could be so easy (6) |
| OCULAR | You must meet Carol - so easy on the eye! (6) |
| HARDERTOACCEPT | That's not so easy to swallow (6,2,6) |
| SPEEDY | Little Mexican legend with zip, so easy to miss one whizzing about (6,8) |
| OBTUSE | Blunt in form but so easy starting off |
| ASITIS | Things being so easy with fish all skinned (2,2,2) |
| PLIGHT | Difficulty with piano, then easy (6) |
