| MEETCUTE | Two people who just broke up with their significant others showing up to a costume party dressed as |
| WIG | A hairpiece you might wear to a costume party (3) |
| COUPLESTRIP | Vacation with friends and their significant others |
| AROD | Yankee slugger who just broke the A.L. record for most homers in Apr. |
| ANIMALS | What the guests at village resident Rhona Goskirk's hen party dressed as! (7) |
| GONEAS | Attended a costume party dressed up, say |
| GOAS | Attend a costume party dressed like |
| DRESSREHEARSAL | Fitting introduction to a costume play |
| EXITPOLL | Survey of people who just voted |
| IDLERS | People who just sit around |
| IKE | Fictional candy creator who "broke up" with Mike as part of a marketing campaign |
| SCENEPARTNERS | People who perform together formed by a division of a play + significant others: 2 wds. |
| SUNRISE | Before ___, a 1995 romantic film starring Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke about two people who meet on a train |
| HANNAHBROWN | The Bachelorette 2019 lead who broke up with Jed Wyatt after discovering he had a girlfriend during filming: 2 wds. |
| LAKE | The ___ House 2006 fantasy film starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock as two people who meet via letters in a time-defying mailbox |
| BOXANDCOX | Two people who alternate in a place or job, but never meet (3,3,3) |
| LITERAL | Like the phrase "seeing eye to eye" for two people who are the same height |
| MAXRAMSAY | Ramsay Street fella who was gutted when cheating Holly broke up with him (3,6) |
| MYLUVESLIKEA | Wine-like passion stood up anc just broke out of jail in summer, according to Burns the romantic (2,5,4,1,3,3,4,5,5,6,2,4) |
| REDRED | Wine-like passion stood up anc just broke out of jail in summer, according to Burns the romantic (2,5,4,1,3,3,4,5,5,6,2,4) |
