| FRIENDSHIP | What keeps us together |
| BETWEENYOUANDME | Confidentially, this is what keeps us apart (7,3,3,2) |
| INERTIA | Sloth, lack of skill, and in English now what keeps us going |
| IMMUNESYSTEM | Before stem, my menu is designed for what keeps us healthy: ... (6,6) |
| LOVE | What "will keep us together," in a 1975 hit |
| TONI | "Love Will Keep Us Together" singer Tennille |
| LOVEWILL | Captain & Tennille hit, ___ Keep Us Together |
| TENNILLE | Toni ___ (sang "Love Will Keep Us Together") (8) |
| SEDAKA | Singer/songwriterwho composed the Captain & Tennille's #1 hit "Love Will Keep Us Together" |
| ANGUISH | "Ideologies separate us. Dreams and ___ bring us together": Eugene Ionesco (7) |
| LINCTUS | Throat remedy brought us together on air (7) |
| SASHIMI | Something of chef's special forces us together? |
| GUSTO | Some bring us together for exhilaration (5) |
| KEEP | Captain & Tennille hit, Love Will _ Us Together |
| USHER | She joins us together with the doorkeeper (5) |
| TIDES | Keeps us going, ... us over |
| UNAWAKENED | All of us together having a naughty weak end in bed (10) |
| STAYPUT | Don't move as guy starts to push us together (4,3) |
| WILLKEEP | "Love ___ Us Together" (1975 hit written by Sedaka) (4,4) |
| SUSTAINS | Keeps us confined in bad spots (8) |
