| HALFASIXPENCE | A chef explains cooking (4,1,8) |
| KITCHENSINKER | Baseball pitch from a chef? |
| REPASTPERFECT | High praise to a chef? |
| SUMMERKITCHEN | One of the Four Seasons requires a chef for the barbecue (6,7) |
| NOPIECEOFCAKE | What a chef might call each dessert featured in this puzzle, literally or figuratively |
| FLASHINTHEPAN | As a chef with short-lived success may be (13) |
| PASTRYBRUSH | A chef/cook's utensil with which to candy or glaze a cake, but also to eggwash dough, glace a bun, honey a ham, oil bread, paint a pie, sugarcoat a Danish or apply a shiny milk-based coating to any sw |
| APRON | A coverall of a chef, cobbler, cook, farrier or potter, for example, tied at the back; or, a similar garment, such as a girl's pinafore worn over a dress, or that of a bishop or Freemason (5) |
| SIGNATURE | Autograph or handwritten name; distinctive mark; a letter or numeral at the foot of a page in bookbinding; or, a dish characteristic of a chef (9) |
| STU | Good name for a chef, and an even better name for a chef who worries a lot |
| SHAMEFACED | Son cooking made a chef embarrassed (10) |
| FONDUE | A cheese dish from a chef on duels |
| RUNSOUTOFTHYME | A chef may have a problem if she ___ |
| TSP | 1/48 of a cup to a chef: Abbr. |
| WOK | Pan used by a chef in a Chinese restaurant |
| COOKING | Gosh, a monarch working as a chef! (7) |
| ANI | What turns a chef into a chief? (3) |
| HAT | A chef might wear a puffy white one |
| THELADYOFSHALLOT | ... in which a chef showed off her speedy peeling and chopping while whipping up a bordelaise sauce? |
| CHELFHAM | I am a chef at a medium-sized hotel, The Hillside, about five miles from Barnstaple (8) |