| SERENADED | Sang to a lover, interminably calm and dead funny (9) |
| ELECTORAL | Utter superior fancy to a lover counted on January 6th (6,9,4) |
| SERENADES | Songs sung to a lover |
| ENCHANTED | Bewitched fellows sang to put maiden off |
| APPLEGATE | Christina ___, Anchorman and Dead To Me star (9) |
| TAUTOLOGY | Term, from "same word, repeating what has been said", for redundant repetition of words, as in "free gift", "lifeless and dead", "I saw it with my own eyes" or "unplanned surprise" (9) |
| PETERWOIR | The Truman Show and Dead Poets Society director (5,4) |
| GRANULATE | Old lady, cruel at heart and dead rough |
| PETERWEIR | "Witness" and "Dead Poets Society" director who was one of two artists honored with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 81st Annual Venice Film Festival last week |
| DEVISE | Invent a dead funny sieve (6) |
| TEMPT | Nat King Cole asked, "Do you smile to ... a lover, Mona Lisa; Or is this your way to hide a broken h |
| PLOVERS | Post-script to a lover or to other birds (7) |
| VOTE | Utter superior fancy to a lover counted on January 6th (6,9,4) |
| STATES | Utter superior fancy to a lover counted on January 6th (6,9,4) |
| STKILDA | Dead funny talk is about Hebridean islands (2,5) |
| EDDA | Dead funny old Scandinavian books (4) |
| MAIDEN | Girl with dead funny name I embrace (6) |
| SERENADE | Sing to a lover, e.g. |
| TWOTIME | Be unfaithful to (a lover) (3-4) |
| CASANOVA | Aspirin dropped into bit of Chanel No. 5 next to a lover (8) |
