| INVOLVE | Embrace with hot, very soppy love |
| MAWKISH | Mouth gets kiss from drunken lips, very soppy |
| SATURATED | Very soppy, like a family film after son cheers up (9) |
| SCORCHIO | Sirocco's unusually keeping hot - very hot, according to The Fast Show's Poula (8) |
| SHRUBBERY | Small, hot, very supple set of bushes |
| ANCHOVY | A new firm accepts hot, very unknown, strong ingredient (7) |
| INAFLASH | Last foxtrot delayed as hot very suddenly (2,1,5) |
| HOSPITAL | Clinic initially planned in hot, very large country unfinished |
| LUSTRED | The hots - very hot - must be given a gloss (7) |
| HUGO | Victor gets embrace with love (4) |
| CARESS | Embrace with affection (6) |
| HUGER | Embrace with hesitation, being so much bigger |
| LOOKALIKE | See Hindu goddess in permitted embrace with Eastern twin? |
| HUGE | Enormous embrace with ogre at last |
| EAGERLY | ... turning, say, soon to embrace with desire |
| PASH | Embrace with great ardour (4) |
| DREDGER | Sort of greed medical man will embrace with craft (7) |
| VERBALHUG | Embrace with words, rather than arms |
| ENFOLD | Embrace with a tipsy fondle (6) |
| BEARHUG | A hearty embrace with both arms; or, a wrestling "bodylock" clinch (4,3) |
