| 100% | WARMLY | 6 | Kindly and with love, not coldly |
| 44% | ENAMOR | 6 | Fill with love and fascination |
| 43% | ESME | 4 | Salinger's "For ___ - With Love and Squalor" |
| 43% | DEVOTEDLY | 9 | With great love and loyalty |
| 42% | AMORAL | 6 | Not concerned with right and wrong |
| 41% | HEART | 5 | A shape associated with love and Valentine's Day |
| 41% | EROS | 4 | Love god with a bow and arrow |
| 40% | PROBLEMS | 8 | 1958 Everly Brothers hit about troubles with love and school |
| 40% | COURTNEYS | 9 | Love and vance, but not cox |
| 40% | DUMP | 4 | Break up with, and not nicely |
| 40% | ESME | 4 | "For ___ - with Love and Squalor" (short story by J.D. Salinger) |
| 40% | HUGHGRANT | 9 | Notting Hill, About a Boy and Love Actually actor |
| 39% | ENDLESS | 7 | __ Love, duet with Lionel Richie and Diana Ross |
| 39% | TAYLOR | 6 | Burton and __, actors with complicated love lives |
| 39% | GALATEA | 7 | Pygmalion sculpted and fell in love with __ |
| 39% | WOO | 3 | Court with flowers and love poetry, perhaps |
| 39% | MALCOLM | 7 | & 22A Author of novels From Aberystwyth with Love and Aberystwyth Mon Amour |
| 39% | IBEFORE | 7 | With 14- and 64-Across, familiar rule not always followed |
| 39% | ARCHIE | 6 | Red head in love with Betty and Veronica |
| 38% | TIMEPOOR | 8 | With much to do and not enough hours to do it |
| 38% | MATILDA | 7 | Dahl heroine with magic powers and love of books |
| 38% | PEETA | 5 | Part of a love triangle with Katniss and Gale |
| 38% | ILSA | 4 | Character in a love triangle with Victor and Rick |
| 37% | PRAYER | 6 | Plea to a deity ... and with 47a, a wish that's not expressed verbally |
| 37% | REDBONE | 7 | Band with the 1974 hit "Come and Get Your Love" |
| 36% | LEANNA | 6 | ___ Love, alliteratively named “Young and the Restless” blonde with a gossip column |
| 36% | SIDNEYPOITIER | 13 | "To Sir, With Love" actor who played Nelson Mandela in "Mandela and de Klerk": 2 wds. |
| 36% | ROTE | 4 | "Thy love did read by __, that could not spell": "Romeo and Juliet" |
| 36% | BRUNCH | 6 | Meal with mimosas that is "not quite breakfast and not quite lunch" |
| 36% | DAISYTRADER | 11 | One unsatisfied with a "She loves me, she loves me not" result? |