| INCLOVER | Incorporated sweetheart in luxury (2,6) |
| PUTUPJOB | Sweetheart in inn after setback in a deceptive event (3-2,3) |
| FLAMENCO | Soldier supports sweetheart in the dance (8) |
| MESDAMES | Nice ladies cross over sweetheart in trouble (8) |
| PREMISES | Pressure sweetheart in careless propositions (8) |
| LINGERIE | Stay with me, sweetheart, in underwear (8) |
| MARIGOLD | Marie dumped sweetheart in front of bullion plant (8) |
| ITHEEWED | One article from sweetheart in middle of week offering three words of commitment formally (1,4,3) |
| SABOTAGE | Shoe with a little silver for sweetheart in ruin (8) |
| BEFOOLED | Made an idiot out of clown and sweetheart in plot (8) |
| EXEGESES | Critical interpretations of old partner on edge after losing diamonds for sweetheart in ship (8) |
| METERING | Ran into sweetheart in Waterford working for Irish Water (8) |
| THATCHER | Becky, Tom's sweetheart in Mark Twain's book The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer (8) |
| SCHATZIS | Sweethearts, in slang |
| THOMSETT | Sally ?, actress who played Jo in 1970s ITV sitcom Man About the House |
| MICHELLE | Veteran sitcom star playing Tom 'Rocky' Cotton's secret wife Jo in Walford (5,8) |
| ENAMEL | Nail polish for sweetheart, old sweetheart in retirement (6) |
| ALCOVE | Caught in embrace of a sweetheart in nook (6) |
| LOOSEENDS | Unfinished business in toilet, sends sweetheart in (5,4) |
| ALLOVERTHESHOP | Sweetheart in hotel has arranged parking in every place (3,4,3,4) |
