| CURED | Food treated by salting, smoking or drying in order to preserve it (5) |
| EMBALM | To treat a corpse with chemicals in order to preserve it from decay, is to do what (6) |
| CURE | Preserve by smoking or drying |
| CDRS | They may be burned in order to preserve information: Abbr. |
| SALTS | Preserves it for some old sailors (5) |
| KILNS | Furnaces for firing or drying |
| ICEUP | Require scraping or salting, perhaps |
| HABIT | Smoking or procrastination, e.g. |
| CAN | Is able to preserve it in tins (3) |
| CHASTITY | Head of convent's eager to preserve it? (8) |
| PRESERVE | To prepare food by freezing, drying or salting so that it will resist decomposition (8) |
| BLOATER | Whole herring cured by salting and light smoking, especially at Yarmouth (7) |
| BISCUIT | From the Old French for "twice-cooked" due to an original twofold process of baking and drying in a slow oven, a small unleavened cake, such as a cookie or a shortbread round (7) |
| KILN | A furnace for firing or burning or drying porcelain or bricks (4) |
| KIPPERSSKIPPER | Cures a fish by salting and drying? |
| ATARMSLENGTH | Grants Hamlet order to preserve his independence (2,4,6) |
| COASTAL | By sea, kiln for drying in California |
| DISHCLOTH | It's for washing or drying child's hot medley (9) |
| CURING | Preserving, fish perhaps, by salting etc. (6) |
| REPRIEVES | Rescues it after I preserve it for them |
