| BOLSHOI | Dance company sending up couch potato - husband I love upset |
| COBURG | Bread company sending back meal (6) |
| DROWSE | Take a nap, bringing up couch over vacated space (6) |
| HOLDIT | Husband I told getting drunk: stop! |
| HOWITZER | Husband I wrote about possesses unknown sort of gun |
| EXHIBITION | Former husband I assaulted: this carries a charge, to be fair |
| HARRIDAN | Bossy old woman's husband I had seen in Scottish island |
| WIMSEY | Fancy losing husband: I agree to turn detective |
| SCHOOLMISTRESSY | Son indifferent about husband, I emphasise in my case, as one dealing with children |
| PADTHAI | To impress husband, I adapt spicy Asian dish (3,4) |
| CHICANERY | Weep about husband I am able to engage initially in deceit (9) |
| HAHAS | Ditches husband, I see, then son (2-3) |
| NERD | Technical expert, individual without love, upset doctor (4) |
| ORIEL | Love upset, relegating lecturer in college (5) |
| SORE | God of love upset and angry (4) |
| NOVELETTE | Story of new love upset by contents of letter (9) |
| FRANKLIN | He's telling all, having had a love upset |
| SOLIPSISM | Error about love upset miss having egotistical attitude |
| MAUDLIN | Over love upset, girl gets mawkish (7) |
| SOLVE | Get to bottom of love's upset (5) |
