| ABUNDANCE | Little cake wrapped in a ball - that's plenty (9) |
| WHOA | Cry to a ball that's thinking of rolling into the water |
| SWISSROLL | Flat sponge cake wrapped around a filling (5,4) |
| LAUGHABLE | Removing a huge ball, that's ludicrous (9) |
| STRAINING | Endeavouring to get the twine, in a ball, into (9) |
| PETITFOUR | My favourite: it's a square little cake |
| CONGLOBED | Line dance briefly guided round old boy in a ball |
| UNSKILLED | Little cakes topped and iced with no training necessary (9) |
| LAMINGTON | Little cake |
| SUBUNIT | Part of a cake wrapped in case (7) |
| BUN | Dialect for a dry stalk; a chignon or cockernony; a bread roll; a little cake with currants or cream; a pet name for rabbit or a squirrel; or, a hare's scut (3) |
| ISSUE | Dispute removal of top of cake wrapped in lightweight paper (4,5) |
| TAKE | Dispute removal of top of cake wrapped in lightweight paper (4,5) |
| BLACKBUN | Scottish fruit cake wrapped in pastry (5,3) |
| ATOM | What a ball represents, in a ball-and-stick model of a molecule |
| COOKIE | From the Dutch for "little cake", a sweet biscuit; a plain Scottish bun; or, a person of a particular type, such as smart or tough, e.g. (6) |
| CATCH | From "chase", a word meaning capture, grasp, seize or take, as in a ball or a cold; or, a clasp, clip, hasp, latch or anything that fastens or holds (5) |
| DAINTY | From "choice morsel, pleasure", a noun for a delicacy such as a little cake or fancy; or, an adjective that means delicately petite and pretty (6) |
| ECLAIR | Clear one to be used in a little cake |
| CREAMSLICE | Marcel's ordered a wafer and a little cake (5,5) |