| PARMENTIER | Antoine-Augustin -, agriculturist who introduced the use of potatoes as food into France |
| JETHROTULL | and 21dn, English agriculturist who invented the seed drill (6,4) |
| METABOLISM | Biological process in the body that allows organisms to convert food into energy (10) |
| IVORYTOWER | English translation of an idiom that appears in a poem by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve used to desc |
| LISTERIA | Genus of bacteria named after the British surgeon who introduced the use of antiseptics (8) |
| LIQUIDISER | A kitchen device for turning solid food into a pureed form (10) |
| METABOLISE | Convert (food) into energy (10) |
| LISTER | Joseph ___, British surgeon who introduced the use of antiseptics (6) |
| JOSEPHLISTER | British surgeon who introduced the use of antiseptics (6,6) |
| HAULM | Word for straw; the collective stalks of beans, grasses, hops, peas or potatoes, as used for animal bedding, litter or thatching; or, a single strawy stem of any said plant (5) |
| GIGUE | From "dance, fiddle", a lively rustic folk dance of English, Irish and Scottish origin, imported into France in the mid-17th century (5) |
| FRESNEL | Augustin-Jean ___, 1788-1827, French physicist who contributed to the wave theory of light (7) |
| JETHRO | and 21dn, English agriculturist who invented the seed drill (6,4) |
| COKE | Thomas, English agriculturist who was 1st Earl of Leicester (4) |
| TULL | see 6dn, English agriculturist who invented the seed drill (6,4) |
| CAUSERIE | French "chat, gossip" that evolved into a conversational paragraph about literature or art; or, an informal meandering essay in the style of Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (8) |
| COULOMB | Charles-Augustin de -; French physicist after whom the SI unit of electric charge was named (7) |
| RHONE | River rising in Switzerland and flowing to Lake Geneva, and then into France (5) |
| JULIENNE | Cut food into strips, right in the middle of summer? (8) |
| EUGENIE | Debut stage work by the 18th Century playwright Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (7) |
