| RUSSE | Charlotte -; pudding based on sponge cake or lady fingers enclosing bavarois or custard (5) |
| BAKED | - Alaska; pudding based on sponge cake, ice cream and meringue browned in an oven (5) |
| FIGS | Pear-shaped "fruits" or syconia of trees in the mulberry family, with leaves symbolising modesty in art; dialect word for segments of oranges; or, lady finger bananas (4) |
| CHARLOTTERUSSE | Cold dessert of sponge fingers enclosing a mixture of custard and whipped cream (9,5) |
| TORTE | Wrong bottom on sponge cake (5) |
| GADFLY | The little pest that has risen out of some lady fingers (6) |
| DEFRAY | Sling out Lady Fingers to bear the cost (6) |
| TIRAMISU | Dessert of lady fingers, coffee and mascarpone (8) |
| HORNS | Cream- or custard-filled pastries, known in Italy as cannoncini; brass bugles traditionally used for hunting signals; or, a stag's antlers (5) |
| FOOL | Court jester with a belled cap once represented as a watermark on paper; or, a light "trifle" of a pudding based on clotted cream or custard with pureed goosegogs, rasps or other seasonal berries/frui |
| TITLE | Appellation of rank such as such as lord or lady; a chapter-heading; the name of a book, newspaper etc, or the publication itself (5) |
| PIVOT | Turned to leading man or lady, one playing central role (5) |
| WHIP | Riding crop; coachman; pudding based on beaten cream or eggs; or, a parliamentary disciplinarian (4) |
| IRENE | One Frenchman or lady (5) |
| NOBLE | Lord or lady (5) |
| DONNA | Party for revolutionary girl or lady from Italy (5) |
| AFFOGATO | Classic Italian pudding based on gelato drowned in espresso, sometimes served with amaretti or biscotti (8) |
| AMUCK | Answer jumped-up Lord or Lady in frenzy |
| BROWN | Father of confederation or lady of the left |
| ARIES | Eddie Murphy or Lady Gaga, astrologically |
