| Some monthly check recipients | 29 |
| Some alimony collectors | 23 |
| Signatures, Ã la Harpo | 25 |
| Short kisses? | 13 |
| Ruptured couple | 15 |
| Returnees from Reno, maybe | 26 |
| Returnees from Reno | 19 |
| Result of a split | 17 |
| Reno departers | 14 |
| Quondam couples | 15 |
| Quintet in this puzzle | 22 |
| Prior spouses | 13 |
| Previous partners | 17 |
| Past dates? | 11 |
| Past couples | 12 |
| Participants in custody battles | 31 |
| Parted pair | 11 |
| Paper-ballot marks | 18 |
| Palimony payers | 15 |
| Onetime spouses | 15 |
| Onetime item | 12 |
| Ones who've gone splitsville | 32 |
| Ones who've been through divorce court | 42 |
| Ones who may not be on speaking terms | 37 |
| Ones who may have issues over issues | 36 |
| Ones who have broken up | 23 |
| Ones who are all broken up | 26 |
| Ones released from an institution? | 34 |
| Ones giving or receiving alimony | 32 |
| Ones concerned with custody | 27 |
| One-time spouses | 16 |
| One-time item | 13 |
| One-time husbands | 17 |
| One side in a nine-square game | 30 |
| Once-wedded ones | 16 |
| Old partners | 12 |
| Old pair | 8 |
| Old mates | 9 |
| Old items | 9 |
| No longer spouses | 17 |
| Negotiators of visitation rights | 32 |
| Mimi, Nicole, and Katie, to Tom | 31 |
| Mickey Rooney had six before turning 50 | 39 |
| Men in Liz's past | 21 |
| Mates who've split | 22 |
| Mates no more | 13 |
| Marital cast-offs | 17 |
| Man and wife no more | 20 |
| Lovers no more | 14 |
| Lovebirds no more | 17 |
| Liz has had some | 16 |
| Knot untiers? | 13 |
| Knot untiers | 12 |
| Kisses, sometimes | 17 |
| Kate Moss and Jamie Hince, as of a few weeks ago | 48 |
| Joint custody parties | 21 |
| Jessica and Nick | 16 |
| Ivana and Marla, in relation to The Donald | 42 |
| It can be awkward when they run into each other | 47 |
| Husband and wife no more | 24 |
| Half of DCXX | 12 |
| Group for Liz Taylor | 20 |
| Givers and receivers of alimony | 31 |
| Generic signatures | 18 |
| Forty percent of Exxon? | 23 |
| Fortensky and Warner, to Liz Taylor | 35 |
| Formers | 7 |
| Former sweethearts | 18 |
| Former spouses, informally | 26 |
| Former spouses, for short | 25 |
| Former ones: Colloq. | 20 |
| Former mates, slangily | 22 |
| Former items | 12 |
| Former item | 11 |
| Former husbands | 15 |
| Former hubbies, e.g. | 20 |
| Former couple | 13 |
| Flames that may have gone out? | 30 |
| Flames that have cooled? | 24 |
| Flames that flamed out? | 23 |
| Fisher and Burton, to Taylor | 28 |
| Farrow and Gardner, in Sinatra's life | 41 |
| Extinguished flames? | 20 |
| Erstwhile partners | 18 |
| Erstwhile flames | 16 |
| Emotional baggage carriers? | 27 |
| Eighty-sixed partners | 21 |
| Donald Trump has some | 21 |
| Donald and Ivana, for instance | 30 |
| Donald and Ivana, Burt and Loni, etc. | 37 |
| Divorcees, e.g. | 15 |
| Difficulties for wedding planners, maybe | 40 |
| Custody sharers | 15 |
| Custody battlers, often | 23 |
| Custody battlers | 16 |
| Combatants in family court, often | 33 |
| Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards, e.g. | 39 |
| Cast-off spouses | 16 |
| Cast-off mates | 14 |
| Barstool monologue subjects | 27 |