Across
- 3. A feeling of excitement and mystery associated with love (7)
- 5. An act of holding someone tightly in one's arms, typically to express affection (3)
- 7. An intense feeling of deep affection (4)
- 8. A piece of thick, stiff paper or thin pasteboard, in particular one used for writing or printing on (4)
- 10. Someone who shows that they think highly of a person, as by sending flowers, but keeps their identity a secret from that person (6,7)
- 12. A card sent, often anonymously, on St Valentine's Day, 14 February, to a person one loves or is attracted to (9)
- 15. A food in the form of a paste or solid block made from roasted and ground cacao seeds, typically sweetened and eaten as confectionery (9)
- 16. Of a colour at the end of the spectrum next to orange and opposite violet, as of blood, fire, or rubies (3)
- 17. To touch, someone or something, with the lips especially as a mark of affection or greeting (4)
Down
- 1. An attractively arranged bunch of flowers, especially one presented as a gift or carried at a ceremony (7)
- 2. The second month of the Gregorian calendar (8)
- 4. For all future time; for always (7)
- 5. A hollow muscular organ of vertebrate animals that by its rhythmic contraction acts as a force pump maintaining the circulation of the blood (5)
- 6. The god of love. He is represented as a naked winged boy with a bow and arrows, with which he wounds his victims (5)
- 9. Of a colour intermediate between red and white, as of coral or salmon (4)
- 11. A social or romantic appointment or engagement (4)
- 13. A prickly bush or shrub that typically bears red, pink, yellow, or white fragrant flowers, native to north temperate regions and widely grown as an ornamental (4)
- 14. A reddening of the cheeks and forehead brought about by increased capillary blood flow in the skin (5)
- 15. A brief but intense infatuation for someone, especially someone unattainable (5)