| ALMOND | An ingredient with sugar and egg in the sweet paste marzipan (6) |
| OLIVEOIL | Cold pressed, virgin or extra virgin, an ingredient with a taste that varies depending on its climate of origin (5,3) |
| SWEETCORN | An ingredient, with beans, of succotash |
| MISLAY | Deposit the egg in the wrong nest and lose it? (6) |
| STONES | Attacks and an egg in the nest's broken (6) |
| CHURRO | Spanish and Mexican snack consisting of a stick of deep-fried dough, often dusted with sugar and cinnamon and served with a chocolate sauce (6) |
| CUCKOO | What bird might lay its egg in the nest of another? (6) |
| NOUGAT | Confection of sweet paste with chopped almonds, etc. (6) |
| MUESLI | In turn, have to smile about an alternative to scrambled eggs in the morning (6) |
| APPLES | Pomes traditionally coddled with sugar and spices, crushed in cideries, grown by orchardists or sold by costermongers (6) |
| JULEPS | Drinks of bourbon, with sugar and mint, poured over crushed ice (6) |
| MULLED | Wine that's been heated with sugar and spices |
| STIRUP | To mix ingredients with a spoon when preparing one's Christmas pudding on the Sunday before the season of Advent, for example (4,2) |
| THRUSH | Bird dropping first of eggs in the long grass (6) |
| RETSYN | Certs ingredient with a trademarked name |
| RECIPE | Old word for a medicinal formula or prescription; or, a list of ingredients with a method, such as clergyman Sydney Smith's rhyming version for a salad dressing (6) |
| TARTARE | Minced beef served raw with an egg in the middle |
| MARZIPAN | A paste of ground almonds, sugar and egg whites used in confectionery |
| FONDANT | Thick sweet paste of sugar and water named from the French for 'melting' (7) |
| PRINGLE | Bryan ___, actor whose roles included Cheese and Egg in ITV sitcom The Dustbinmen (7) |
