| APEROL | An Italian aperitif whose ingredients include gentian and rhubarb (6) |
| ROCKERY | Arrangement of stones interspersed with alpines such as pinks, thyme, aubretia, candytufts, trailing bellflowers, gentian and hens-and-chicks (7) |
| ALPINES | Mountain plants, such as gentians and sedums (7) |
| CAESAR | Salad whose ingredients include romaine lettuce, anchovies and parmesan cheese (6) |
| MAITAI | Cocktail whose ingredients include rum, grenadine, orgeat, lime juice and sugar (3,3) |
| COLADA | Pina ___ rum-based cocktail whose main ingredients include coconut milk and pineapple juice |
| TABBOULEH | Levantine salad whose ingredients include parsley, tomatoes, mint, onion and bulgur (9) |
| NICOISE | Salade ---, cold dish whose ingredients include hard-boiled eggs, anchovy and tuna (7) |
| TEASEL | Prickly flower of a plant in the honeysuckle family with the snowberry, beauty bush, seablush, valerian and horse gentian (6) |
| GIRIJA | Sanskrit for Indian gentian or Swertia species (6) |
| PATENS | Spreading blue-flowered gentian sage or Salvia - - - - - - (6) |
| ALPINE | Flower growing at high altitude such as the mountain cowslip, snowbell, mountain avens or spring gentian, often used in rockeries (6) |
| COMFORTFOOD | Dish whose ingredients include nostalgia |
| TOXIC | Like apple seeds and rhubarb leaves, in large quantities |
| ROTTERDAM | Port and rhubarb trade reshaped capital of Malta |
| CAMPARI | Red, bitter-sweet Italian aperitif (7) |
| OMELETTE | Entree whose ingredients may vary greatly |
| COBB | Salad whose ingredients are often plated in rows |
| CAJUN | Cuisine with [circled letters], whose ingredients are the answers to the italicized clues |
| DUMPCAKES | Desserts whose ingredients are thrown in a pan without mixing |
