EXES

• First Wives Club members

• Sign here marks

• The First Wives Club members

• Alimony check cashers

• Alimony check payees

• Alimony collectors

• Alimony figures

• Alimony getters

• Alimony receivers

• Alimony receivers, e.g.

• Alimony recipients

• Alimony recipients, informally

• Alimony senders, maybe

• All of George Strait's live in Texas

• Awkward people to run into, often

• Awkward run-in subjects

• Ballot marks

• Barstool monologue subjects

• Britney and K-Fed, e.g.

• Bruce and Demi, e.g.

• Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, now

• Burt and Loni, e.g.

• Bygone bedmates

• Carly Simon and James Taylor, e.g.

• Certain singles

• Child support payers

• Co-parents, usually

• Correspondent's kisses

• Couple, after a breakup

• Couples no more

• Crosses (out)

• Cruise and Kidman

• Custody sharers

• Custody sharers, maybe

• Custody sharers, often

• Dated lovers

• Decree holders

• Difficulties for wedding planners, maybe

• Discontinued item?

• Divorc

• Divorc es

• Divorced couple

• Donald and Ivana and Burt and Loni

• Donald and Ivana, Burt and Loni, etc.

• Donald and Ivana, e.g.

• Donald and Ivana, for instance

• Donald Trump has some

• Donald Trump has two

• Eighty-sixed partners

• Emotional baggage carriers?

• Erstwhile flames

• Erstwhile mates

• Erstwhile spouses

• Extinguished flames?

• Farrow and Gardner, in Sinatra's life

• Farrow and Gardner, to Sinatra

• First wives' club

• Flamed-out flames

• Flames

• Flames gone cold

• Flames no more

• Flames that flamed out?

• Flames that have cooled?

• Flickered-out flames

• Fomer mates

• Former couple

• Former flames

• Former hubbies

• Former husbands

• Former item

• Former loves

• Former pairs

• Former partners

• Former significant others

• Former spouses

• Former union members

• Formers

• Fortensky and Warner, to Liz Taylor

• Forty percent of Exxon?

• Frank and Ava, e.g.

• Generic signatures

• Givers and receivers of alimony

• Group for Liz Taylor

• Half of all tic-tac-toe players

• Half of DCXX

• Halves of splits?

• Husband and wife no more

• Ike and Tina, e.g.

• Irreconcilable individuals

• It can be awkward when they run into each other

• Item of the past

• Items that didn't make it

• Ivana and Donald, e.g.

• Ivana and Marla, in relation to The Donald

• Ivana and Marla, to The Donald

• Jessica and Nick

• Joint custodians

• Joint custody parties

• Kate Moss and Jamie Hince, as of a few weeks ago

• Knot untiers

• Larry King collection

• Larry King has a few

• Liz has several

• Liz Taylor collection

• Long-distance kisses

• Love-letter addenda

• Love-letter letters

• Lovers no more

• Marla and Ivana, e.g.

• Marla and Ivana, to Donald

• Mates no more

• Matrimonial escapees

• Members of The First Wives Club

• Men in Liz's past

• Mickey Rooney had six before turning 50

• Mickey Rooney has a lot of them

• Mimi and Nicole, to Tom

• Negotiators of visitation rights

• Nicole and Mimi, to Tom

• No longer spouses

• Old flames

• Old items

• Old mates

• Old pair

• Once-wedded ones

• Once-yoked folks

• One side in a nine-square game

• One-time husbands

• One-time item

• One-time spouses

• Ones concerned with custody

• Ones giving or receiving alimony

• Ones released from an institution?

• Ones who are all broken up

• Ones who have broken up

• Ones who may have issues over issues

• Ones who may not be on speaking terms

• Ones who've been through divorce court

• Ones who've gone splitsville

• Onetime lovers

• Onetime wives

• Palimony payers

• Paper-ballot marks

• Parted pair

• Participants in custody battles

• Partners no more

• Partners who called it quits

• Past dates?

• Past flames

• Past loves

• Past partners

• Past spouses

• People decoupled

• Preceders of wyes

• Previous partners

• Previous spouses

• Prior spouses

• Quintet in this puzzle

• Quondam couples

• Result of a split

• Results of some split decisions

• Ruptured couple

• Shed spouses

• Short kisses?

• Simple signatures

• Some alimony collectors

• Some apartment hunters

• Some court opponents

• Some dating service applicants

• Some gossip-column subjects

• Some monthly check recipients

• Some past dates?

• Some personal ad writers

• Some signatures

• Some signatures of old

• Some singles

• Some singles bar frequenters

• Some stalkers

• Some tabloid pairs

• Some tic-tac-toe players

• Some were louses as spouses

• Sometimes irreconcilable individuals

• Sonny and Cher, e.g.

• Split personalities?

• Splitsville residents

• Splitsville parties

• Splitters?

• Spot markers

• Spouses cut loose

• Spouses no more

• Spouses who've split up

• Subjects of kiss-and-tell books

• Subjects of old wives' tales?

• Support payers

• Sweethearts, once

• Tabloids duos

• Ted Turner and Jane Fonda, e.g.

• There's love lost between them

• They can be awkward to run into

• They left the union

• They made a split decision

• They may live in Texas

• They may not be speaking

• They often don't speak to each other

• They run into each other frequently in this puzzle

• They used to be together

• They were louses as spouses

• They were once together

• They're broken up

• They're from Splitsville

• They're generally assigned to different tables at weddings

• They're no longer an item

• They're no longer attached

• They're no longer hitched

• They're no longer together

• They're no longer unionized

• They're split

• They're splitsville

• They've gone their separate ways

• Those unlocked from wedlock

• Tic-tac-toe side

• Tic-tac-toe symbols

• Tom and Nicole, e.g.

• Tom and Nicole, now

• Tough guests at a wedding

• Treasure markers

• Twins of Xerxes

• Two from sixty-six?

• Two in sixty-six?

• Two out of sixty-six?

• Uncoupled couple

• Unhitched mates

• Unhitched people

• Union busters?

• Unlikely valentine swappers

• Unpaired pair

• Warm letter closing

• Was-bands?

• What people get when they're divorced

• Where-to-sign marks

• Worser halves?

• Writer's kisses

• Wyes' predecessors

• Zsa Zsa has eight