| Hero's beloved |
| '60s film character wearing one black glove |
| Quaint contraction |
| Rowena's lover |
| Brain-scan letters |
| Ivanhoe's love |
| Alt.country singer Case whose "The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You" comes out tomorrow |
| Letter before gee |
| Beloved TV and film star |
| Abbr. at the bottom of a business letter |
| 7th letter, Greek alphabet |
| Computer pioneer Lovelace (woo-hoo, women in tech!) |
| James Bond film, to a letter writer? |
| Archaeologist's letters |
| #1 song between Phil Collins's "Groovy Kind of Love" and The Escape Club's "Wild Wild West" (1988 wasn't good for music, apparently) |
| All, e.g., for this answer's last six letters? |
| Quaint exclamation of surprise |
| Galatea's lover |
| Aida's love |
| Alicia Keys "Teenage Love Affair" album |
| Organizations with Greek letters |
| Confusing statements ... and a hint to the circled letters |
| Shine a Little Love" grp. |
| Letter before theta |
| Four-letter-word concealer |
| Four-letter fruit pronounced in three syllables |
| Beloved film character with a tail |
| Showing love |
| Attend a party uninvited ... and a literal hint to five sets of circled letters |
| Surprises unpleasantly, and a hint to each starred answer's first two + last two letters |