| AGA | A brand of range or cooker for which Mary Berry has devised numerous recipes and tips (3) |
| AGE | Kind of range or limit |
| DESADE | He called wedlock "The most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised" |
| BAR | Workplace with taps and tips |
| KFC | Restaurant where you choose between original recipe and extra crispy |
| COOKBOOK | Any one of the world's gastronomic canon of kitchen references featuring a medley, mixture, olio or smorgasbord of recipes and culinary tips (8) |
| COOKERYBOOK | With numerous examples including Apicius, The English Huswife, The Forme of Cury, Good Things in England and Larousse Gastronomique, any compendium of recipes and handy culinary tips (7,4) |
| LIGHTS | Word for animals' lungs, so called for their imponderousness; candles, chandeliers, Chinese lanterns, fairy bulbs, lustres, pharoses, windows or other sources of lux or, clues, hints and tips towards |
| OVEN | Compartment in a cooker for baking and roasting or for warming plates (4) |
| STOVES | Ranges or cookers which burns fuel and used for heating and cooking (6) |
| BADEGG | Nasty fellow capable of floating in water according to Mary Berry (3,3) |
| LOCH | Expanse of water in Scotland with seven islands, on one of which Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned (4,5) |
| LEVEN | Expanse of water in Scotland with seven islands, on one of which Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned (4,5) |
| SPLASHBACK | An impermeable area on a wall behind a washbasin, sink or cooker to protect against spillage (10) |
| DAME | Mary Beard or Mary Berry, e.g. |
| LEITH | Cookery writer who took over from Mary Berry as a judge on the GBBO (5) |
| HAMLYN | Publisher and philanthropist who produced the first illustrated cookbooks including All Colour Cook Book co-written by Mary Berry (6) |
| STEAMER | Type of cooker for Idli or Idiappam |
| AIRS | - above the ground; move in classical dressage after which Mary Stewart titled one of her novels (4) |
| WESLEY | Pen name under which Mary Aline Mynors Farmar wrote The Camomile Lawn and Harnessing Peacocks (6) |
