| MASALA | Menu's beginning with a cold dish, mostly spicy stuff |
| GARAMMASALA | Letter about a right cold dish mostly being mixed spices |
| CASSATA | A singular Malaysian dish mostly topped with cold ice cream |
| HERBALTEA | Curry dish mostly served in here with a hot drink |
| SAPID | Tasty dish mostly ordered with a starter of pasta (5) |
| SALT | Word, related to the name of a highly seasoned Italian sausage and a cold dish of vegetables, for sodium chloride, prepared as a condiment (4) |
| GUACAMOLE | Island salutation coming with the introduction of a cold dish |
| TARAMASALATA | See you must eat stuff, a cold dish without the last fishy paste |
| GALANTINE | England almost besotted with it, a cold dish (9) |
| SALAD | Such a lad's apt to be considered a cold dish! (5) |
| BARDWELL | Inner southern suburb, beginning with a traditional word for a poet (8,4) |
| PARK | Inner southern suburb, beginning with a traditional word for a poet (8,4) |
| PLATINUM | Metal dish, mostly popular, shown with hesitation (8) |
| ARAME | A Japanese dish, mostly edible seaweed |
| TAMALE | Mexican dish, mostly bland, served with beer |
| POTATO | Vegetable dish mostly consumed with nothing on the side |
| SALADOIL | Extra virgin on a cold dish, perhaps (5,3) |
| GRANITA | Old lady wants it - a cold dish |
| SALADDRESSING | Oil and vinegar mixture added to a cold dish |
| RUSSIANSALAD | What is a cold dish of potatoes, vegetables and mayonnaise? (7,5) |
