| SWEATED | Gently cooked vegetable mostly consumed inside |
| RICHARD | Actor uses one vegetable, mostly green, cooked following recipe (7,4) |
| WHEATEN | It's wholemeal when consumed inside (7) |
| CHAPATI | Fellow mostly consumed Italy's principal kind of bread (7) |
| APRICOT | Tropical fruit in starter of Arborio rice mostly consumed by Kitty (7) |
| TEQUILA | During evening meal writer mostly consumed alcoholic drink |
| CATERER | Supplier of food and drink mostly consumed by home worker |
| ALDENTE | (Of cooked vegetables) still firm when bitten |
| GERE | Actor uses one vegetable, mostly green, cooked following recipe (7,4) |
| UNEATEN | Gateau neat enough, but not consumed inside (7) |
| POTATO | Vegetable dish mostly consumed with nothing on the side |
| ACCELERATE | Get faster a cold vegetable, mostly devoured (10) |
| CELERY | Salad vegetable, mostly picked, over beside railway |
| ELECTRIFYING | Rice, if gently cooked, will be astounding (12) |
| BAINMARIE | Kitchen device in which food may be gently cooked |
| YAM | Vegetable mostly produced in Nigeria |
| RARE | Describes a gently cooked steak |
| EATEN | Consumed inside tea-tents (5) |
| NEWPOTATO | Now eat top cooked vegetable (3,6) |
| MALTREATED | Abused whiskey and wine, consumed inside (10) |