| PUFFPUFF | A traditional African beignet- or doughnut-like deep-fried snack; or, a child's word for a "choo-choo", aka railway train/steam locomotive (4-4) |
| BIRDIE | A shuttlecock for badminton; a child's word for a feathered vertebrate such as a sparrow; or, a golf score of one stroke under par (6) |
| DOUGHNUT | Sugared confection similar to the French beignet or Italian bombolone (8) |
| TRAIN | What a child might call a "choo-choo" |
| SNEEZES | Goes "A-a-a-choo!" |
| FRITTER | Deep-fried snack (7) |
| TOT | Deep-fried snack, familiarly |
| OREO | Doubly unhealthy deep-fried snack |
| CRISP | Anglo-Saxon word for curly/frizzy hair originally, later a wafer of potato deep-fried as a snack; or, a pudding of fruit with a crumble-like topping (5) |
| DOLLY | Child's word for a moppet or a puppet; a posser for stirring laundry in a washtub; an easy catch in cricket; or, a wheeled cart for a film camera (5) |
| SNAP | Word for a sudden audible nip; a snack or nibble; a crack; an earring; a ginger nut; an interjection meaning "same, matching"; a quick photo; a popper; or, a sharp spell of cold (4) |
| TWISTER | A swindler; a doughnut-like cruller; a party game of contortionism played on a mat; a rope-maker; a tornado; or, a person who dances the Watusi (7) |
| FEEDER | Container filled with nuts or seeds for garden birds; a bib/bottle for a baby or a child; a tributary stream; or, a railway branch linking outlying areas to the trunk line (6) |
| POPPER | Utensil for transforming maize kernels into a cinema-style snack; or, a press stud or snap fastener (6) |
| KITTY | Old word for a jail, which transferred to a pool of money staked in gambling; or, a child's pet name for a moggy (5) |
| CRIB | A manger or fodder rack; an ox-stall; a cottage or hovel; or, a child's cot (4) |
| PEANUTS | Legumes or kernels often salted or dry-roasted as snacks; or, a comic strip by Charles M. Schulz (7) |
| BEAKER | A drinking bowl; a lab glass with a lip; or, a child's plastic tumbler (6) |
| TICKTOCK | Child's word for a timekeeper that shares its name with a dandelion blowball; or, the recurrent beat or click made by said chronometer (4-4) |
| CASHEWS | Nut-like seeds of a tropical tree eaten salted as a snack or in stir-fries, curries, with noodles or |
