| SPRINGROLL | Appetizer with sweet |
| EGGROLLS | Appetizers with sweet-and-sour sauce |
| SATAY | Appetizer with peanut sauce |
| TAPENADE | Appetizer with pureed olives |
| CANAPE | Appetizer with a toothpick, perhaps |
| RANGOON | Crab ___ (appetizer with a cream-cheese filling) |
| QUS | Cheesy appetizer with chips |
| QUESODIP | Cheesy appetizer with chips |
| LOADEDNACHOS | *Appetizer with lots of toppings |
| AWESOMEBLOSSOM | Now-discontinued Chili's appetizer with a rhyming name |
| DOUBLE | Bad person to share appetizers with? |
| JALAPENOPOPPERS | Stuffed appetizers with a kick |
| STUFFEDTOMATOES | Rice-filled appetizers with red shells, and a hint to the words that bookend 17-, 30-, and 42-Across |
| SOLAR | 20 with sweet cicely, 7 with an Israelite and 17 on the weekend, did you say ___ all in this? (5,6) |
| PEAS | Word linking with "sweet" for plants grown up nets or hazel/cane wigwams, or with "garden" for legumes that can be eaten straight from their pods (4) |
| CREPE | Thin pancake usually with sweet filling / fine, gauzelike fabric with wrinkled surface |
| SYSTEM | see 14ac, 20 with sweet cicely, 7 with an Israelite and 17 on the weekend, did you say - all in this? |
| ROCKET | The herb arugula; a firework; the rising of a game bird when flushed; or, with "sweet", dame's-violet or mother-of-the-evening with nightscented honesty-like blooms (6) |
| CANNOLI | Shells stuffed with sweet stuff |
| INVEIGLE | Model given lie with sweet-talk (8) |