| LADLED | Served, as mulled wine |
| CLOVE | A segment of a bulb or garlic; or, the dried flower bud of a tree related to myrtle used as a traditional painkiller for toothache, or to flavour masala chai, biryani or mulled wine (5) |
| CLOVES | Segments of a bulb of garlic; or, dried flower buds used as spice for curries or mulled wine (6) |
| MINCEPIES | Festive spicy fruit pastries served with mulled wine or left with a carrot and sherry on Christmas Eve (5,4) |
| SPICE | Ingredient such as cinnamon, cloves or nutmeg used for flavouring mulled wine, glegg, mincemeat, festive lattes or lebkuchen (5) |
| BISHOP | Prelate known collectively as an episcopacy; mitre-topped chess piece; or, a type of mulled wine (6) |
| WASSAIL | Meaning "be in good health", an old drinking salutation; warm spiced ale/cider or mulled wine drunk during a joyous celebration such as Yuletide; or, a spell of carol singing from house to house (7) |
| CLARET | Endlessly treacly mulled wine? |
| POSSATE | Spiced hot drink, e.g. mulled wine (7) |
| GLUHWEIN | Mulled wine (German) |
| PLOTTIE | Spiced hot drink, e.g. mulled wine (7) |
| EDWIN | king calling for some mulled wine |
| GLOGG | The Swedish version of mulled wine |
| OENOLOGY | Mulled wine? |
| NUTMEG | Spice for mulled wine (6) |
| ZESTS | Mulled-wine ingredients |
| ORANGEZEST | Ingredient in some mulled wine |
| NEGUS | Mulled wine made from unusual genus (5) |
| CHIMNEYSWEEP | Mulled wine with my speech, one clearing way for Father Christmas? |
| LEMON | Fruit used to flavour gremolata, posset, Madeira cake, pancakes, mulled wine, mincemeat and beurre blanc (5) |
