| WHEREBY | Through which wife wants present before birthday on vacation (7) |
| WRANGLE | Quarrel in which wife has right perspective(7) |
| ANTHONY | _ Hopkins, actor with a birthday on NYE (7) |
| IGRAINE | In Arthurian romances, which wife of Gorlois, Duke of Tintagel, was the mother of Arthur, marrying his father, Uther Pendragon, a day after Gorlois was slain? (7) |
| ERENOW | Before the present, before the present |
| HEREUPON | On which wife left at once (8) |
| EIGHTEENTH | Birthday on which you gain majority (10) |
| JWOWW | She's having her 40th birthday on "Jersey Shore: Family Vacation" |
| NINETIETH | Birthday on which a person becomes a nonagenarian |
| TAKETO | Form a liking for repeated scene in which wife exits (4,2) |
| WOK | With which wife regularly cooks? (3) |
| SWELLING | Expanding trade in which wife invested (8) |
| WHAT | Wife wants a fashion accessory, eh? (4) |
| WELLINEVER | My wife wants wake-up call round about noon |
| WALL | Erection? Wife wants the lot (4) |
| ROMANTIC | Passionate fellow twitching after quarrel in which wife's knocked out |
| BURNSSUPPER | A celebration of the life of a famous Scottish poet, held on, or near, his birthday on January 25 (5,6) |
| ICES | Writes "Happy Birthday" on a cake, say |
| COLIN | ___ Firth, actor who's celebrating a big birthday on 10 September (pictured top) (5) |
| HUGH | ___ Grant, actor celebrating a big birthday on 9 September (pictured bottom) (4) |
