| GRIND | Prepare the coffee beans - a long tedious job (5) |
| BEARN | A coffee bean; a lobster or crayfish's egg; a soft fruit such as an aubergine, avocado, banana or to |
| CHORE | Tedious job to put hospital in the centre (5) |
| CRAWL | Crop with long, tedious pace (5) |
| CAROB | Bean, a choc. substitute |
| SHLEP | Long, tedious trip |
| SCREED | Barman takes grass provided it's a long tedious speech (6) |
| RIGMAROLE | Fit up mum to take part - a long, tedious business |
| POD | Seedcase or husk containing garden peas or broad beans; a chilli; a school or social order of dolphins; or, one of the passenger compartments of a big wheel (3) |
| CHARRO | ___ beans, a.k.a. cowboy beans |
| GRINDS | Pulverises into powder, ... the coffee beans |
| TEA | The Coffee Bean & ___ Leaf (coffee shop chain) |
| CANNELLONI | From "pipe, reed, stem" and with a similar name to a white haricot bean, a variety of tubular pasta; or, a dish of said rolls stuffed with minced beef and cheese or ricotta and spinach (10) |
| STRUNG | Prepared beans - a step on the way |
| DRUDGERY | Bludger heads off wearing a dry coat to a tedious job (8) |
| ARABICA | Oldest cultivated variety of the coffee bean, supposedly discovered by Ethiopian goatherd Kaldi in the 9th century (7) |
| CAFFEINE | Chemical stimulant found in the coffee bean, tea leaf, kola nut and cacao |
| ABLESEAMAN | Salt beans, a meal to stew (4,6) |
| VANILLA | Tropical climbing orchid from whose beans a flavouring extract is prepared (7) |
| PENPUSHER | It's a tedious job for fellow flogging writer perhaps (3-6) |
