| SEERSUCKER | Name of a fabric, from the Persian for "milk and sugar" |
| ALEC | Name that anagrams to the name of a fabric |
| CHESS | From the Persian for "king", a game from whose name a word for a pattern of squares derives (5) |
| MUST | From the Latin for "young wine", word for freshly crushed grape juice before or during fermentation; or, from the Persian for "drunk", a frenzied state of bull elephants (4) |
| JULEP | From the Persian for "rosewater", a sweet herbal or medicated drink; or, a cocktail of bourbon and mint (5) |
| KIOSKS | From the Persian for "pavilions", a word for bandstands, news-stands, telephone boxes or small shops (6) |
| DERVISH | Member of one of several ascetic Muslim religious orders named from the Persian for 'poor' (7) |
| ROOK | Chess piece whose name is derived from the Persian for "chariot" |
| SITAR | Its name derives from the Persian for "three-stringed" |
| CRUMB | A mixture of cocoa liquor, milk and sugar to make chocolate; a fragment of biscuit, bread or cake; or, the soft inner part of a loaf (5) |
| KHAKI | Color from the Persian for "dust" |
| PANCAKES | Skillet-cooked crepes eaten on Shrove Tuesday in a custom symbolic of nothing more than indulging and using up one's butter, eggs, flour, milk and sugar before a fast (8) |
| BIAS | Prejudice; diagonal line or cut across the grain of a fabric; or, a bulge or weight on the side of a bowl (4) |
| TEXTURE | From "web, to weave", term for the character of a fabric, thus the consistency, feel, grain, tactile quality etc of any tangible thing (7) |
| HESSIAN | Woven fabric from the skin of the jute plant also known as burlap (7) |
| CUSTARDTART | A sweet pastry with a baked filling of egg, milk and sugar, typically topped with grated nutmeg (7,4) |
| COCOA | Made from baking chocolate or cocoa powder and milk and sugar. |
| LINEN | Fabric from the fibres of flax (5) |
| SAMITE | Silk and gold fabric from the Middle Ages |
| ESTAMIN | Rough, woolen fabric, from the Latin for "thread" |
