| FLAPDOODLE | An arbitrary formation, popularised in Captain Marryat's Peter Simple, for an imaginary dish for the gullible or food eaten by a fool; otherwise, gross flattery, a muggins, nonsense or piffling drivel |
| MARRYAT | Frederick 'Captain' _, English novelist and naval officer whose works include Peter Simple (1834) and Mr Midshipman Eash (1834) (7) |
| DYSTOPIA | Term for an imaginary place where everything is as bad as it can be, coined by John Stuart Mill in one of his 1868 Parliamentary speeches (8) |
| GARNISH | An edible flower, julienne of vegetables, sprig of parsley etc to decorate a dish for the table (7) |
| SUPERBOWL | Quietly leaving the meal with a dish for the American championship (5,4) |
| CROQUET | Lawn game played with mallets and hoops that was popularised in the UK by John Jaques when he packaged the game with sets of rules in the 1850s (7) |
| HORSENS | Danish city in the east of the Jutland peninsula, popularised in recent years due to concerts by act |
| TAMPA | Coastal city of W Florida in which the Cuban sandwich was popularised in the 1890s (5) |
| RURITANIA | Ruin tiara made for an imaginary kingdom (9) |
| ECUADOR | Land named for an imaginary line |
| FLAG | Any one of the vexillological objects forming bunting or a hoist, or used in Captain Frederick Marryat's system of maritime signalling (4) |
| PLATER | Chef, when prepping the dish for the waiter |
| PATEN | Dish for the bread at the Eucharist |
| UKASE | Neighbours lose the head with lawsuit as it's an arbitrary command (5) |
| RANDOM | Managed party machine at the outset of an arbitrary nature (6) |
| ATRANDOM | A man trod nervously or in an arbitrary fashion (2,6) |
| THEBIGAPPLE | City's nickname popularised in the 1920s by John X Fitz Gerald of the Morning Telegraph which refers to the city's racecourses (3,3,4) |
| OMARKHAYYAM | Persian poet, mathematician, and astronomer, noted for the Rubaiyat, a collection of quatrains, popularised in the West by Edward FitzGerald |
| DARKCONTINENT | Description of Africa popularised in the title of an 1878 book by Henry Morton Stanley |
| MINISKIRT | Women's garment with a hemline well above the knee, popularised in the 1960s (9) |
