| PLEASES | What every prospect does to the lover of quotations? |
| CALYPSO | What name connects a style of West Indian music to a nymph of Greek myth who was the lover of Odysseus? (7) |
| DELILAH | In the Old Testament, the lover of Samson, who cut off his hair and betrayed him to the Philistines (7) |
| VITA | First name of the lover of Virginia Woolf, described in the book Orlando. |
| ANOINTS | What a Roman Catholic priest does to the sick or to the dying |
| LEANDER | In Greek myths, the lover of Hero, who drowned whilst trying to swim across the Hellespont (7) |
| LANCELOT | In Arthurian legend, a knight of the Round Table, the lover of Queen Guinevere (8) |
| ANTONY | In the Shakespeare play, who was the lover of Cleopatra? (6) |
| AESTHETE | Somehow tease the lover of the arts (8) |
| TUNDIT | What the sea does to the shore, eg Hor. Epod. 17.55 |
| GNASHES | She sang, perhaps, of what one does to the teeth (7) |
| DIGESTS | What the stomach does to the food inside |
| LAYINTO | Criticise what the hen does to the nest? (3,4) |
| RASPUTIN | Boney M said this person, Russia's greatest love machine, was the lover of the Russian queen (ra ra! |
| ACIS | In Greek mythology, a Sicilian shepherd and the lover of the nymph Galatea (4) |
| MARKANTONY | Roman general under Julius Caesar who was the lover of Cleopatra, queen of Egypt (4,6) |
| HERO | The lover of Leander in Greek mythology (4) |
| GALATEA | The lover of Acis, originally in Ovid's Metamorphoses |
| ADONIS | The lover of Aphrodite (6) |
| HELOISE | French writer and abbess, the lover of Peter Abelard (7) |
