Referring Clues

• Former spouses
• Divorcees
• Donald and Ivana, e.g.
• "The First Wives' Club" members
• They've split
• "First Wives Club" members
• Old flames
• Onetime item
• Larry King has a few
• They often don't speak to each other
• Donald and Ivana, Burt and Loni, etc.
• Union busters?
• Partners who called it quits
• Alimony receivers
• They're broken up
• Men in Liz's past
• Extinguished flames?
• Difficulties for wedding planners, maybe
• Split personalities?
• Two out of sixty-six?
• Former partners
• Ones who may have issues over issues
• Ones who may not be on speaking terms
• Group for Liz Taylor
• Former item
• Alimony senders, maybe
• Divorcés
• Splitsville parties
• Past dates?
• Ones who are all broken up
• They're no longer hitched
• Ones who've gone splitsville
• Two in sixty-six?
• Custody sharers, maybe
• Two from sixty-six?
• Alimony receivers, e.g.
• Former mates
• Givers and receivers of alimony
• Unlikely valentine swappers
• Brad and 86-Down, e.g.
• They're splitsville
• 22-Down that has split
• Alimony recipients
• Divorced couple
• Ike and Tina, e.g.
• Former flames
• Spouses cut loose
• Burt and Loni, e.g.
• Alimony check cashers
• Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, now
• Former couples
• Alimony check payees
• Divorced couples
• Splitters?
• Decree holders
• Mimi and Nicole, to Tom
• Mickey Rooney has a lot of them
• Past partners
• They were louses as spouses
• Nicole and Mimi, to Tom
• Tic-tac-toe symbols
• Former union members
• Flames that flamed out?
• Ted Turner and Jane Fonda, e.g.
• They're no longer an item
• Erstwhile flames
• Worser halves?
• Spouses who've split up
• Forty percent of Exxon?
• Britney and K-Fed, e.g.
• Alimony collectors
• Old mates
• It can be awkward when they run into each other
• They may not be speaking
• Item of the past
• Previous partners
• Negotiators of visitation rights
• Emotional baggage carriers?
• Former union members?
• Previous spouses
• Half of DCXX
• Participants in custody battles
• Mickey Rooney had six before turning 50
• Former significant others
• They're no longer together
• Palimony payers
• Fortensky and Warner, to Liz Taylor
• One-time spouses
• Barstool monologue subjects
• Paper-ballot marks
• Once-wedded ones
• Result of a split
• Alimony figures
• Former husbands
• Custody sharers, often
• One side in a nine-square game
• They left the union
• There's love lost between them
• Correspondent's kisses
• Knot untiers
• Sweethearts, once
• They were once together
• Mates no more
• Alimony recipients, informally
• "The First Wives Club" members
• One-time item
• Donald Trump has two
• Simple signatures
• Some signatures
• Long-distance kisses
• Tic-tac-toe side
• Some past dates?
• Former pairs
• They used to be together
• One-time items
• Some tic-tac-toe players
• Custody sharers
• Flamed-out flames
• Ones who've been through divorce court
• Parted pair
• Some were louses as spouses
• Spot markers
• Halves of splits?
• They've gone their separate ways
• Eighty-sixed partners
• Spouses no more
• Couples no more
• Zsa Zsa has eight
• Ones concerned with custody
• Ones who have broken up
• Ivana and Marla, in relation to The Donald
• Former couple
• Past flames
• Was-bands?
• They made a split decision
• Joint custodians
• Subjects of kiss-and-tell books
• They're no longer attached
• Ivana and Marla, to The Donald
• Discontinued item?
• Joint custody parties
• Flames that have cooled?
• Flames no more
• Awkward people to run into, often
• Ruptured couple
• Previous paramours
• Some tabloid pairs
• Alimony payers
• Divorcees, e.g.
• Divorce court figures
• Bygone partners
• Erstwhile partners
• Custody battlers
• 'First Wives Club' members
• Love-letter letters
• Items that didn't make it
• Donald and Ivana, for instance
• Sometimes irreconcilable individuals
• Ones giving or receiving alimony
• Old pair
• Old partners
• Husband and wife no more
• They run into each other frequently in this puzzle
• Former mates, slangily
• Alimony givers or receivers
• They might fight over alimony
• The Gabor sisters had many
• Combatants in family court, often
• Farrow and Gardner, to Sinatra
• New singles
• Mimi, Nicole, and Katie, to Tom
• Flames that may have gone out?
• Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, e.g.
• XXX
• Knot untiers?
• Erstwhile mates
• Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards, e.g.
• Past spouses
• Former sweethearts
• Former items
• Uncoupled couple
• Where-to-sign marks
• Man and wife no more
• Parted partners
• They used to be united
• Former beaus
• The six single title characters of a TV Land series
• Divorced mates
• Couple that's split
• Halves of an old item?
• They are no longer together
• An item no more
• Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, e.g.
• Some signatures of old
• Divorce consequences
• Erstwhile pairs
• One-time couples
• Flames that have gone out?
• Split pair
• Parts of an old item?
• Spouse of yore
• Ones who are splitsville
• Couple no more
• Undone items
• They sometimes intrude at weddings, and also in this puzzle's theme
• Participants in some awkward meetings
• Formerly married couple
• They've gone splitsville
• They may not be on speaking terms
• Couple gone kaput
• Split couple
• Alimony payers or payees
• Burton and Warner, to Taylor
• Former pair
• Opponents in custody cases
• Ivana and Marla, to Donald
• Kramer and Kramer, in "Kramer vs. Kramer"
• Liz has several
• They've been "renovated"
• Writers of alimony checks
• 24th letters
• Marks given on incorrect answers
• Xerox has two
• Some Tic-Tac-Toe letters
• Old lovers need tablet - nooky when erect?
• Couple, decoupled
• Blake and Miranda, e.g.
• Partners in the past
• Some support payers
• Old flames, as found in this puzzle's theme answers
• Results of some split decisions
• Members of "The First Wives Club"
• Generic signatures
• Bruce and Ashton, to Demi
• Ones released from an institution?
• Custody battlers, often
• Former partners' costs
• Maybe five of Henry's energy oats (rounded)
• Holders of joint custody, perhaps
• Strikes (out)
• Ballot marks, perhaps
• People who used to be lovers
• Spousal support recipients
• Results of some split decisions?
• Onetime spouses
• Mr. and Mrs. no more
• People who have divorced
• Alimony check writers
• Broke couple?
• Some singles
• Partners no more
• Ones who've called it quits
• They're split
• Parted parties
• They're no longer dating
• Kisses for old lovers
• Couple that's here and there?
• Their dating days are done
• Moore and Willis, e.g.
• Partners who've parted
• Spouses, once removed
• Former steadies
• Couple that called it quits
• Discontinued item?
• Divorced pair
• Broken-up pair
• Questionnaire marks
• People you might unfollow
• Flames of the past
• Broken-up couple
• Dating history figures
• Running into them is often awkward
• Couples, after breakups
• Sean Penn and Guy Ritchie, to Madonna
• Former spouses, say
• Sweethearts no more
• They aren't together anymore
• They’ve split
• They strike out words
• Flames that have gone out?
• Cross-out marks
• Crossed marks
• People whom you might try to forget
• Support payers, at times
• Split personalities?
• Members of a defunct union
• "I like texts from my ___ when they want a second chance" (Cardi B)
• People you dated
• Subjects of split decisions?
• Union deserters
• People you may unfollow on Instagram
• Partners before "the one"
• People you used to date
• They may get back together
• They cross out things
• People in your dating history
• Flames that burned out?
• "I like texts from my ___ when they want a second chance" (Cardi B line)
• They may not want to run into each other
• They used to be a "thing"
• Former lovers
• They're sometimes blocked on social media
• Flickered-out flames?
• They can be tricky to run into
• Frequent subjects of Taylor Swift songs
• Some co-parents
• Residents of Splitsville?
• Former boyfriends
• Former flings
• Former girlfriends
• Post-breakup pair
• Former union members?
• People that might be deleted from your contacts
• Past lovers
• Exxon constituents?
• "Other halves" no more
• Some deleted contacts
• They were partners, then parted
• People for whom a "no contact" rule might apply
• It might be awkward for friends to date yours
• Noneternal flames?
• Awkward people to butt-dial, perhaps
• Ones paying or receiving alimony
• Awkward people to run into, perhaps
• List in Ariana Grande's "Thank U, Next"
• Loves of the past