| PREDATORS | Animals that obtain food by eating other animals (9) |
| EGGS | The toucan's diet consists of mostly fruit but can be observed eating other birds' ___ and nestlings, insects as well as lizards |
| BELLPULL | Telephone man's influence that obtains a ring |
| WHALES | What, in a claim by a Japanese government minister, deny starving people food by eating fish? (6) |
| TESTER | Historically, a person employed to prove the innocuousness of food by eating it before serving it to their master or mistress; or, a little cup for a person who is sampling wine (6) |
| PREDATOR | Any animal which survives by killing and eating others (8) |
| SCHOOLBOY | Billy Bunter perhaps in train, getting by eating nothing? (9) |
| PICKCLEAN | To remove (by eating) all the meat from a bone (4,5) |
| DEHYDRATE | Preserve food by drying (9) |
| TOOTHPICK | One might get food by filling hot jacket potato, finally ordered selection (9) |
| BREAKDOWN | Analysis of potassium in food by individual (9) |
| RUMINANTS | ___ are mammals that are able to acquire nutrients from plant-based food by fermenting it |
| SHOWPIECE | Cats possibly given food by church? A fine example |
| FREEZEDRY | Preserve (food) by making very cold (6-3) |
| RASORES | Former order of birds that scratch the ground to obtain food (7) |
| POTATO | Shoot at nothing but obtain food (6) |
| PEASEPUDDING | Pa has dug in deep in order to obtain food (5,7) |
| PASTA | Secretary crosses a street to obtain food (5) |
| HOLDOUTFOR | Persist in seeking to obtain food to hurl when agitated (4,3,3) |
| TAKEOUT | Obtain food to be eaten elsewhere in the U.S.? (4,3) |
