| BEHN | Playwright, poet, polemicist, prisoner and Charles II's spy, whose Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister, based on Lord Grey and Lady Henrietta Berkeley, is said by some to be England's first |
| PEELE | English playwright-poet |
| SUTTIE | Isy ___, comedian whose Love Letters appeared on Radio 4 (6) |
| TENNISPROSPROSE | Love-letters-between-Andre-Agassi-and-Steffi-Graf? |
| NELL | ___ Gwyn, actress and Charles II's mistress, d. 1687 (4) |
| PUGIN | Architect, polemicist and principal proponent of the Gothic revival who wrote Contrasts and collaborated with Sir Charles Barry on the detail, fittings and furnishings of the Palace of Westminster (5) |
| AKA | Letters between a name and a criminal alias |
| CBD | Marijuana component spelled using the letters between A and E: Abbr. |
| PSYCHE | From the Greek meaning "soul", a mythical character whose love for Cupid is described in a tale by Apuleius that inspired Beauty and the Beast (6) |
| BCDE | Letters between A and F |
| SSSS | PC keyboard letter between A and D ...it's rather stuck here |
| MONET | Painter of impressions whose love of capucines (nasturtiums), coquelicots (poppies), irises, nympheas (spatterdocks) and all other flowers truly blossomed in his living masterpiece of a garden in Give |
| DIDO | Queen and founder of Carthage in Virgil's epic Latin poem Aeneid whose love for Aeneas was unrequited (4) |
| ABELARD | Peter ___, French philosopher and theologian whose love for Heloise is recorded in their correspondence |
| WARD | Artist known as "Spy" whose many watercolour caricatures were featured in the second Vanity Fair (4) |
| BOND | Spy whose next portrayer is the subject of much recent speculation |
| DEVILSADVOCATE | Time to lock up nefarious, miserable and very old Conservative polemicist (6,8) |
| SSS | Stuck keyboard letter between 'A' and 'D' |
| TEASDALE | Poet whose Love Songs won the 1918 Pulitzer |
| AIDA | Opera whose love triangle includes Radames and Amneris |
