| SPOUSAL | Relating to marriage or a husband or wife (7) |
| CONSORT | A ship sailing with another; a companion; or, a husband or wife, especially of a reigning king/queen (7) |
| NUPTIAL | Relating to marriage or a wedding |
| AFFINITY | Relationship by marriage; or, a natural attraction/tendency to bond, be it chemical, physical or spiritual (8) |
| PROPOSAL | Offer of marriage; or, a plan put forward for consideration (8) |
| ALIMONY | From "nourishment", a husband or wife's provision for a spouse when they become unwed, providing financial sustenance to keep mouths fed (7) |
| PARTNER | From an old word for "coheir", a husband or wife; either member of an established unmarried couple; an ally; or, one's accomplice in crime (7) |
| IMITATE | Do as another one, seeing it in a husband or wife (7) |
| MARRIED | Having a husband or wife (7) |
| MARITAL | Of or relating to marriage (7) |
| WEDDED | Relating to marriage or married people (6) |
| CONSORTIUM | Word taken directly from Latin for an association, business partnership or fellowship; or, in marriage law, a husband or wife's conjugal rights (10) |
| WED | To take a person as a husband or wife (3) |
| MARRIAGEPARTNER | A husband or wife on rare trip a German might take (8,7) |
| ILLEGITIMATE | Extremely immoral to run off with a husband or wife, producing this? (12) |
| GETMARRIED | Acquire a husband or wife (3,7) |
| ESPOUSE | English husband or wife to make one's own (7) |
| MOTHERINLAW | Female parent of a husband or wife (6-2-3) |
| SPOUSE | A husband or wife (6) |
| KINDRED | Related by blood, marriage or similar character (7) |
