| CHASSEUR | French word for "hunter", used in cookery to denote a cacciatore-like jus or relish of herbs, mushrooms, shallots and wine for game, poultry or wild fowl; or, historically, a liveried attendant of a h |
| SPONGEFINGER | A boudoir biscuit or savoiardi in the shape of a lady's pinkie that is used in cookery to soak up the juice in a charlotte or the Marsala/sherry in the base of tiramisu or trifle (6,6) |
| TOMATOES | Main ingredients with herbs and sometimes wine in a cacciatore sauce (8) |
| BLANCH | In cookery, to immerse briefly in boiling water (6) |
| CHOWCHOW | Chinese preserve of citron, ginger, orange peel etc in syrup; a piccalilli-like relish of vegetables in mustard; or, a spitz-type blue-black-tongued breed of Han dynasty dog that found favour with Que |
| PICCALILLI | Relish of chopped vegetables, hot spices (10) |
| FARM | From a Latin word originally used to denote a tax or rent, a tract of land for the cultivation of crops or rearing of livestock, including its associated barns and homestead (4) |
| ZEST | Word for woody skin quartering a walnut originally, later lemon, orange or other citrus peel for flavouring; or, a quality of gusto, piquancy or relish (4) |
| GUST | An old word for the faculty of taste; flavour, gratification or relish; an abrupt gale or blast of air; or, any sudden rush/outburst, as in emotion fire, passion, rain, smoke or sound (4) |
| SNOOZE | Word for a catnap, used to denote a button for dozing a clock's alarm (6) |
| ENCLAIR | A French phrase used to denote a telegram or message is written in ordinary language, rather than in cipher/code (2,5) |
| PICKLE | Brine, spiced vinegar or other liquor in which food is preserved; the fruit, vegetable or relish so prepared; a gherkin; a jam, mess, muddle or plight; or, a mischievous child (6) |
| SCAMP | Word for a highwayman in the 18th century that later came to denote a cheat, now a rascal (5) |
| MONGER | Word used to denote a dealer in a commodity such as fish or iron (6) |
| PENNATE | From "feather, fin, wing", word used to denote a botanical folio with a distinctly plume- or quill-like shape (7) |
| MINI | Word used to denote a diminutive version of a bus, cab, car, candy-coated chocolate egg, disc, market, skirt, Swiss roll, van or other thing (4) |
| EUSOCIAL | Zoological term used to denote a level of organisation among ants, bees or other organisms whose workers provide for the reproductive individuals of their group (8) |
| ENPRISE | French phrase used in chess to denote a pawn exposed to capture (2,5) |
| URBIETORBI | Standard opening of Roman proclamations now used to denote a papal address 'to the City and to the World' |
| DOLL | Originally a pet form of the name Dorothy to denote a mistress, later a toy figurine, poppet or puppet (4) |
