| SPOUSES | Wives and husbands |
| MATES | Wives and husbands |
| INTERPRET | Understand the printer's broken and husband's taken off (9) |
| JULIETTELEWIS | American actress and singer whose films include Cape Fear, Husbands and Wives and Natural Born Killers (8,5) |
| IVY | Forename of the novelist Dame Compton-Burnett, who penned Brothers and Sisters, Men and Wives and Pastors and Masters (3) |
| GASKELL | Author of the novels including North and South, Wives and Daughters and Cranford (the latter adapted into a BBC television period drama in 2007) (7) |
| ELIZABETHGASKELL | Victorian novelist who wrote North and South, Mary Barton and Wives and Daughters (9,7) |
| LYSETTE | English actress who appeared in Woody Allen's film Husbands And Wives and the sitcom Three Up, Two Down |
| ANTHONY | English actress who appeared in Woody Allen's film Husbands And Wives and the sitcom Three Up, Two Down |
| HAREEM | Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household. |
| JOHNNYWEISSMULLER | Actor who played Tarzan, and had five each of wives and Olympic swimming gold medals |
| MICHAELGAMBON | BAFTA TV Award Best Actor winner for The Singing Detective, Wives and Daughters, Longitude and Perfect Strangers |
| HAWES | Actress in the 1999 miniseries Wives and Daughters as well as The Casual Vacancy, The Durrells and a film adaptation of Rebecca (5) |
| GAMBON | BAFTA TV Award Best Actor winner for The Singing Detective, Wives and Daughters Longitude and Perfect Strangers (7,6) |
| MICHAEL | BAFTA TV Award Best Actor winner for The Singing Detective, Wives and Daughters Longitude and Perfect Strangers (7,6) |
| JACKJONES | "Wives and Lovers" singer |
| HAREM | Wives and concubines in Arabian Nights (5) |
| LOVERS | "Husbands, Wives & ___" |
| HAREMS | Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines |
| ZOE | Footballers' Wives and EastEnders actress, _ Lucker (3) |
