| MONKEYNUT | Alternate name for a common snack food, particularly when sold in its shell |
| FAVA | Alternate name for a broad bean |
| USBC | Type of charger that the EU is mandating for all phones sold in its member countries (even iPhones!) |
| BARBIEDOLL | Over one billion of what toy were sold in its first forty years? (6,4) |
| WELLDONE | How food - particularly meat - cooked thoroughly is described (4-4) |
| CRUMBS | Small morsels of food, particularly baked goods (6) |
| ESCARGOT | French for a snail in its natural state or served in its shell with garlic butter (8) |
| CREVETTE | French culinary word for a king prawn served in its shell (8) |
| GRID | A back-formation of a word for a metal cooking frame, used to describe a lattice, mesh or network of intersecting horizontal/vertical lines; or, the face, particularly when lined (4) |
| PHD | ___ Comics (alternate name for Piled Higher and Deeper, a Jorge Cham comic about grad students) |
| KITTY | Alternate name for the jack in lawn bowls (5) |
| SEATTLE | ___ sound (alternate name for grunge that seems like it should be a description of Puget Sound) |
| ESTRAGON | Major character in Samuel Beckett's stage play Waiting for Godot; the French name for a common herb (8) |
| THROSTLE | Old name for a common bird with a loud song (8) |
| SNAIL | A slow creature that lives in its shell |
| BOILEDEGG | Food cooked in its shell (6,3) |
| NUT | Only something short will go in its shell (3) |
| KNAVE | Alternate name for jack in playing cards (5) |
| REDOX | Alternate name for the reversible chemical process of oxidation-reduction, in which electrons are lost or gained (5) |
| STARFLOWER | *Alternate name for borage, after its shape |
