- EXES
- Former mates
- Former partners
- The First Wives' Club members
- Kisses, symbolically
- Marla and Ivana, e.g.
- Unpaired pair
- People whom it is inadvisable to booty call, usually
- {/XXX/}
- People you might block or stalk on social media
- People who might not get invited to the same parties
- Parts of a former item
- Parted partners
- Former flames
- They've split
- Divorcées
- Palimony recipients
- Past partners
- They're split
- Tough guests at a wedding
- Uncomfortable guests at a wedding, maybe
- They're no longer talking to each other
- Headaches at some wedding reception table placements
- They're no longer seeing each other
- They're part of many old wives' tales
- Unwanted sights in some dating apps
- Old couples
- Awkward party guests
- Pair with a shared history
- They're uncomfortable to bump into
- You used to see a lot more of them
- Former spouses
- Old flames?
- Unhitched mates
- Partners no more
- Spouses no more
- Flames no more
- Splitsville residents?
- People decoupled
- Lovebirds no more
- They may have joint custody
- Union busters?
- Divorcees
- Custody battlers, often
- Ones released from an institution?
- Bruce and Ashton, to Demi
- Old mates
- Two not one anymore
- Historical dates
- Whom people may get back at or with
- Alimony receivers
- Sonny and Cher, e.g.
- What people get when they're divorced
- Couple, after a breakup
- Decree holders
- Donald and Ivana and Burt and Loni
- Ivana and Donald, e.g.
- Alimony recipients
- Matrimonial escapees
- Those unlocked from wedlock
- Burt and Loni, e.g.
- Divorced couple
- Ike and Tina, e.g.
- Spouses cut loose
- Alimony check cashers
- Alimony check payees
- Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, now
- Former couples
- Divorced couples
- Splitters?
- Mickey Rooney has a lot of them
- Mimi and Nicole, to Tom
- Split personalities?
- Nicole and Mimi, to Tom
- They were louses as spouses
- Erstwhile flames
- Tic-tac-toe symbols
- Flames that flamed out?
- Former union members
- Ted Turner and Jane Fonda, e.g.
- They're no longer an item
- Worser halves?
- Britney and K-Fed, e.g.
- Forty percent of Exxon?
- Spouses who've split up
- Alimony collectors
- Eighty-sixed partners
- Flamed-out flames
- Parted pair
- Some were louses as spouses
- Former item
- Ivana and Marla, in relation to The Donald
- Ivana and Marla, to The Donald
- Joint custodians
- Ones who have broken up
- Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards, e.g.
- Combatants in family court, often
- Erstwhile mates
- Flames that may have gone out?
- Mimi, Nicole, and Katie, to Tom
- They might fight over alimony
- Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, e.g.
- Custody sharers, maybe
- They used to be united
- Uncoupled couple
- Items that didn't make it?
- Ivana and Marla, to Donald
- Ivana and Marla, vis- -vis The Donald
- Pair who made a split decision?
- Pairs that came apart
- Some singles
- Uncoupled pair
- Flickered-out flames
- Larry King's sextet
- The ___ (TV Land sitcom about divorcés living together)
- They're un-steady?
- They're no longer together
- They've been Reno-vated?
- Crosses (out)
- Fomer mates
- Former hubbies
- Former loves
- Co-parents, usually
- One-time spouses
- They're no longer unionized
- Halves of splits?
- Some court opponents
- Subjects of old wives' tales?
- Custody sharers
- Some apartment hunters
- Some personal ad writers
- Spot markers
- Palimony payers
- Some dating service applicants
- Previous partners
- Some singles bar frequenters
- They're broken up
- Barstool monologue subjects
- Fortensky and Warner, to Liz Taylor
- Former significant others
- It can be awkward when they run into each other
- They may not be speaking
- Zsa Zsa has eight
- Flames that have cooled?
- Some tabloid pairs
- They used to be together
- Couple that's split
- Divorce consequences
- Parts of an old item?
- They sometimes intrude at weddings, and also in this puzzle's theme
- They may not be on speaking terms
- Subjects of split decisions?
- They aren't together anymore
- They may not want to run into each other
- They're sometimes blocked on social media
- Post-breakup pair
- They can be tricky to run into
- Exxon constituents?
- Some deleted contacts
- They left the union
- Treasure markers
- Sign here marks
- Onetime wives
- Former pairs
- Ballot marks
- Tom and Nicole, e.g.
- Marla and Ivana, to Donald
- Once-wedded ones
- Paper-ballot marks
- Result of a split
- Item of the past
- Former couple
- Old pair
- Former boyfriends
- Duo of old
- Past couples
- Former items
- The six single title characters of a TV Land series
- Erstwhile pairs
- One-time couples
- Undone items
- Former pair
- Ballot marks, perhaps
- Crossed marks
- Questionnaire marks
- Marks that cross
- Some ballot marks
- There's love lost between them
- Child support payers
- They've broken up
- Negotiators of visitation rights
- Emotional baggage carriers?
- Half of DCXX
- Mickey Rooney had six before turning 50
- Participants in custody battles
- Previous spouses
- Subjects of kiss-and-tell books
- Past spouses
- Greek chis translated into English.
- X's.
- Letters used for crossing out.
- They mark spots.
- Letters.
- Crosses.
- Symbolic letters.
- Illiterate signatures.
- Prior spouses
- Cross marks.
- Signatures of a sort.
- Former spouses: Colloq.
- Former spouses, informally
- Certain spouses
- Former ones: Colloq.
- Marital discards
- Reno departers
- Reno leavers
- Marital cast-offs
- Tic-tac-toe side
- Cast-off mates
- Cast-off spouses
- Fisher and Burton, to Taylor
- Former spouses, for short
- Wyes' predecessors
- Quintet in this puzzle
- Arithmetic for Rooney
- Love-letter addenda
- Zsa Zsa has several
- Former hubbies, e.g.
- Returnees from Reno
- Signatures, à la Harpo
- What Bex and Dax have in common
- Unknowns in algebra
- Preceders of wyes
- Alimony givers or getters
- Liz has had some
- Love-letter letters
- Quondam couples
- Alimony getters
- Support payers
- Returnees from Reno, maybe
- Twins of Xerxes
- Liz has several
- First Wives Club members
- Donald and Ivana, e.g.
- Donald and Ivana, Burt and Loni, etc.
- Larry King has a few
- Onetime item
- They often don't speak to each other
- Men in Liz's past
- Partners who called it quits
- Difficulties for wedding planners, maybe
- Extinguished flames?
- Two out of sixty-six?
- Group for Liz Taylor
- Ones who may have issues over issues
- Ones who may not be on speaking terms
- Alimony senders, maybe
- Divorcés
- Ones who are all broken up
- Ones who've gone splitsville
- Past dates?
- Splitsville parties
- They're no longer hitched
- Two in sixty-six?
- Alimony receivers, e.g.
- Two from sixty-six?
- Brad and 86-Down, e.g.
- Givers and receivers of alimony
- Unlikely valentine swappers
- 22-Down that has split
- They're splitsville
- Couples no more
- Ones who've been through divorce court
- They've gone their separate ways
- Joint custody parties
- Ones concerned with custody
- Ruptured couple
- Alimony givers or receivers
- Donald and Ivana, for instance
- Ones giving or receiving alimony
- Mates who've split
- The Gabor sisters had many
- Custody sharers, often
- An item no more
- Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, e.g.
- Halves of an old item?
- Flames that have gone out?
- Ones who are splitsville
- Split pair
- Kramer and Kramer, in "Kramer vs. Kramer"
- Opponents in custody cases
- Ones who've called it quits
- Strikes (out)
- Participants in some awkward meetings
- Sean Penn and Guy Ritchie, to Madonna
- Members of a defunct union
- People whom you might try to forget
- I like texts from my ___ when they want a second chance (Cardi B line)
- Former lovers
- Frequent subjects of Taylor Swift songs
- They used to be a "thing"
- Union deserters
- Residents of Splitsville?
- Some co-parents
- Other halves no more
- Discontinued item?
- Kate Moss and Jamie Hince, as of a few weeks ago
- Some stalkers
- Lovers no more
- They're generally assigned to different tables at weddings
- Co-parents, sometimes
- What splits make pairs
- Broken item?
- Recipients of some regrettable drunk messages
- They got dumped (or did some dumping)
- Larry King collection
- Brangelina, now, e.g.
- They've untied the knot
- A serial monogamist might have many
- Alimony senders and recipients
- Recipients of palimony payments
- Members of "The First Wives Club"
- One-time husbands
- Some monthly check recipients
- Some signatures
- Some signatures of old
- They're from Splitsville
- Half of all tic-tac-toe players
- Sweethearts, once
- Correspondent's kisses
- Formers
- Generic signatures
- Farrow and Gardner, in Sinatra's life
- Farrow and Gardner, to Sinatra
- One-time items
- Donald Trump has some
- No longer spouses
- Some alimony collectors
- Alimony recipients, informally
- Knot untiers
- Mates no more
- They were once together
- Alimony figures
- Former husbands
- One side in a nine-square game
- Husband and wife no more
- They are no longer together
- Couple no more
- Formerly married couple
- Broke couple?
- Couple that's here and there?
- Mr. and Mrs. no more
- Broken-up couple
- Dating history figures
- Former spouses, say
- People you might unfollow
- Running into them is often awkward
- I like texts from my ___ when they want a second chance (Cardi B)
- People you dated
- A-Rod and J. Lo, to each other
- Flames that burned out?
- Partners before "the one"
- Partners who broke up
- People in your dating history
- People you may unfollow on Instagram
- People you used to date
- They may get back together
- Flames that have been snuffed out?
- People who had a fling, say
- They used to date
- Writer's kisses
- Warm letter closing
- Divorc es
- Short kisses?
- Where-to-sign marks
- Erstwhile spouses
- Some tic-tac-toe players
- Long-distance kisses
- Some past dates?
- Simple signatures
- Donald Trump has two
- Man and wife no more
- Alimony payers or payees
- Burton and Warner, to Taylor
- Couple gone kaput
- They've gone splitsville
- Writers of alimony checks
- Alimony check writers
- Alimony payers
- Former steadies
- Holders of joint custody, perhaps
- Partners who've parted
- Their dating days are done
- They're no longer dating
- Broken-up pair
- Couple that called it quits
- Couples, after breakups
- Divorced pair
- Flames of the past
- Former flings
- Former girlfriends
- People that might be deleted from your contacts
- They were partners, then parted
- Shed spouses
- Bruce and Demi, e.g.
- Frank and Ava, e.g.
- Cruise and Kidman
- Tabloids duos
- Unlikely family reunion attendees
- Past sweethearts
- Certain singles
- Results of some split decisions
- Past flames
- They're no longer attached
- Blake and Miranda, e.g.
- Couple, decoupled
- Old flames, as found in this puzzle's theme answers
- Partners in the past
- Some support payers
- Custody battle participants
- They may have visitation rights
- Support payers, at times
- Sweethearts no more
- Former baes
- Kiss-and-tell account subjects
- They may find running into each other awkward
- Split results
- They've called it quits
- Couple, once decoupled
- Old beaus
- Serial dater's many