| INSIPID | Bland, lacking taste or flavour or tang. (7) |
| VAPID | Lacking taste, flavour or tang (5) |
| BLAND | Lacking taste, flavour or tang (5) |
| SOUPCON | A slight trace, e.g. of a particular taste or flavour (7) |
| GARNISH | It's added to a dish for flavour or decoration (7) |
| MENTHOL | Peppermint camphor flavour or aroma (7) |
| SAFFRON | The dried stigmas of an Old World crocus, used to flavour or colour food (7) |
| NOTASTE | Lack of flavor or refinement |
| TINE | Word in Middle English for a snake's forked tongue, later used to mean a strong taste or flavour, a prong of a fork or the spike of knife that fixes into the haft or handle (4) |
| TANG | Strong taste or flavour |
| SAPID | Having taste or flavour (5) |
| NAFF | Lacking taste or quality (4) |
| PIGLINGBLAND | Greedily eat fish lacking taste or character |
| SAPOR | Taste or flavor |
| TASTELESS | Bland, lacking flavour (9) |
| DILUTE | Lessen the strength or flavour of a solution or mixture (6) |
| TINCTURE | Word for a dye or pigment that, from the sense "imparted quality", came to mean a pharmaceutical or medicinal extract; an alcoholic drink; or, a slight aroma, flavour or trace (8) |
| TASTE | From "touch", a term for flavour or gust; or, a small drop of wine or morsel of food to sample or test (5) |
| SOULLESS | Bland, lacking in character (8) |
| UNSEASONED | A bland "lacking experience" (10) |
