| ASONE | Two hearts that beat ___ |
| SINGLETHOUGHT | "Two souls with but a ___ ___, two hearts that beat as one:" John Keats (6,7) |
| ONE | Two hearts that beat as ___ |
| TREYS | Hearts that don't beat very much? |
| YEARN | "Only I discern - Infinite passion, and the pain 0f infinite hearts that -" Robert Browning. Two in the Campagna (1855) (5) |
| HATE | "Cherish those hearts that ___ thee" (Shakespeare) |
| SHATTER | Break hearts that take little time to mend (7) |
| THREE | Number of hearts that an octopus has |
| BIDS | "One heart," "two hearts," "three hearts," etc. |
| NERD | "You're going to go through life thinking that girls don't like you because you're a ___. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won't be true. It'll be because you're an assho |
| TWO | Number of hearts that Time Lords have, in "Doctor Who" |
| NOSE | Advance cautiously, finishing in two hearts, vulnerable (4) |
| BID | Say "two hearts" in bridge, for example |
| OLDSTER | Midshipman, after discarding two hearts, holds the king |
| DRWHO | BBC Time Lord with two hearts |
| WITHHOLDS | Keeps back joker, two hearts, and familiar spades (9) |
| VENTRICLE | Each of the two main chambers of the heart that receive blood from the atrium (9) |
| DRIL | Twitter absurdist who wrote "it is with a heavy heart that I must announce that the celebs are at it again" |
| EVILEYE | Bad heart that may be a curse (4,3) |
| MINCEMEAT | Cut up heart that fills pastry |
