| PRELIMINARYHERRING | Appetizer at the court's low-carb cafe? |
| BARRISTER | He may be seen at the courts, practising |
| BARRISTERS | They may be seen at the courts, practising (10) |
| PRO | Tennis ____ (country club staffer at the courts) |
| POLO | Traveller whose adventures along the Silk Road and at the court of Kublai Khan are described in Il Milione (The Million), or Book of the Marvels of the World (4) |
| HILLIARD | Limner at the courts of Elizabeth I and James I who also painted portrait miniatures of Mary, Queen of Scots, Sir Francis Drake and Sir Walter Raleigh (8) |
| EGGROLL | Appetizer at a Chinese restaurant: 2 wds. |
| CRABDIP | *Appetizer at a Chesapeake restaurant |
| CRAB | ___ Rangoon (appetizer at a Chinese restaurant) |
| RUMAKI | Common appetizer at tiki joints |
| CHIPSANDSALSA | Free appetizer at some taquerias |
| MISO | ___ soup (appetizer at a Japanese restaurant) |
| DUNBAR | Which Scottish poet at the court of James IV wrote the political allegory The Thistle and the Rose ( |
| RAPHAEL | Raised at the court of Urbino, painter of The Madonna of the Pinks who was the third in a trio of revered Italian High Renaissance masters after Leonardo and Michelangelo (7) |
| PUPUPLATTER | Assortment of appetizers at a Polynesian or Chinese restaurant |
| TAPAS | Happy hour appetizers at a Spanish bar |
| SNAILS | Appetizers at a French restaurant |
| LAMOTTE | Comtesse de ___ ___ was involved in the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, a scandal at the court of Louis XVI in 1785 (2,5) |
| WYATT | Poet who popularised the sonnet at the court of Henry VIII; Anne Boleyn's rumoured lover, he spent a month in the Tower of London until her execution (5) |
| NEHEMIAH | A book of the Old Testament recounting the acts of a Jewish official at the court of Artaxerxes, King of Persia (8) |
