| PINCH | Amount of salt or spice held between a finger and thumb; or. the midsection of an hourglass according to Teny Pratchett's Thief of Time(5) |
| HALAL | Meat from animals that have been killed accordin to Muslim law (5) |
| CENTRAL | A recent rally which was held in the midsection of town (7) |
| TENOR | All fingers and thumbs -or finding settled course (5) |
| ANTENNA | Feeler, all fingers and thumbs (or toes), interrupts woman (7) |
| BIT | What is the name of the metal part of a bridle which is held between a horse's teeth? (3) |
| DOILY | Item traditionally found between a finger bowl and a dessert plate |
| FLIP | A snap with a finger and thumb; a toss/spin of a coin or a pancake; a pleasure-flight; a somersault; or, a nog of beer and spirits, traditionally frothed/heated with a red-hot iron (4) |
| SACHET | Cloth bag of lavender or potpourri as a pomander for a drawer; a small tied cheesecloth or muslin sack of herbs or spices; or, a miniature packet of salt, shampoo, sugar etc (6) |
| STEM | Slender midsection of a wine glass or champagne flute; the leaf-bearing part of a plant; or the winding pin of a watch (4) |
| SEASONING | Traditionally dependent on the harvest of autumn, spring, summer or winter, the food/drink-enhancing herbs, pepper, salt or spices employed by a baker, chef, cook or vintner (9) |
| BORIS | Later a Russian president, who lost a finger and thumb hitting a stolen hand grenade with a hammer? (5,7) |
| YELTSIN | Later a Russian president, who lost a finger and thumb hitting a stolen hand grenade with a hammer? (5,7) |
| STRUMS | Sounds the strings of a guitar or banjo with the sweep of a thumb or plectrum (6) |
| STRUM | To sound the strings of a guitar or banjo with the sweep of a thumb or plectrum (5) |
| LOSER | What a finger and a thumb in the shape of an "L" on one's forehead means |
| LASSI | Indian drink of diluted yoghurt or buttermilk flavoured with sugar, salt or spices, served cold (5) |
| NEF | From French for "ship", a boat-shaped silver ornament for holding cutlery, salt or spices on a table (3) |
| MEAD | A hayfield or a lea; or, hydromel, melomel, metheglin or other sweet wine flavoured with fruit or spices, but mainly honey from the bee (4) |
| RISSOLE | A flattened cake of chopped meat, fish or vegetables mixed with herbs or spices and fried in breadcrumbs (7) |
