| GETCRACKING | Advice to start eating a boiled egg? |
| DIGIN | Become defensive when told to start eating a¦ (3,2) |
| COSY | Word for "warm, snug", thus for a cover that fits snugly around a Brown Betty or a boiled egg to keep it hot (4) |
| SALTED | Added flavor to a boiled egg |
| SOLDIER | Strip of toast to go with a boiled egg (7) |
| RAMEN | Soup that often comes with a boiled egg in it |
| EGGSPOON | Piece of cutlery designed for eating a boiled breakfast item (3,5) |
| JASMINE | Yes, German direction to minister? Start eating a shrub! (7) |
| BITE | A piece to start eating? |
| KENTUCKIAN | Instruction for chap to start eating without a US resident |
| SCOTCH | A ___ egg is a hard-boiled egg in a sausage-meat case fried in breadcrumbs (6) |
| SCREE | Second class about to start eating into a lot of debris (5) |
| LETTUCE | Allow unions to start eating salad (7) |
| EBB | Decline to start eating big breakfast |
| EPITOME | To start eating quiche including some turf is an event (7) |
| WHEAT | Grain is what is needed to start eating in (5) |
| CUP | Whether on a sideboard or a saucer or containing an acorn, boiled egg, caramel, claret, copra, culinary ingredient, golf ball, tea or victor's champagne, it is a small or miniature mug- or "tub"-like |
| LOLLY | Informal word for money; a boiled sweet on a stick; or, a Popsicle (5) |
| VIDEO | Tape one can watch six do when about to start eating (5) |
| RETINUE | It's about time, in turn, to start eating on the train (7) |
