| DUMPLINGS | Balls of dough (9) |
| TIPTOEING | Walking on the balls of the feet (9) |
| GRAPESHOT | Hop's wild with Great Balls of Fire? (9) |
| DUMPLING | Chuck fish into ball of dough |
| LIVEWIRES | Balls of energy |
| STYROFOAM | Blocks or balls of polystyrene for packing |
| KNEAD | What did the grumpy pizza chef say when someone offered him a ball of dough? "No, thanks! I won't ___ it" |
| BUBBLETEA | Sweet Chinese drink with balls of tapioca (6,3) |
| OLIVIALEE | Balls of Steel and Dirty Sexy Funny prankster (6,3) |
| SWING | The compass or sweep of a golf club, pendulum, trapeze or of one of the balls of a Newton's cradle (5) |
| SUSHI | A Japanese dish of cold balls of vinegared rice, usually garnished with slices of fish or egg (5) |
| FLOATS | Buoyant things, such as the balls of ballcocks, corks/quills of fishing-lines, dolphins for mooring, lifebelts, rafts or scoops of ice cream in cola (6) |
| RYDER | Winona of "Great Balls of Fire!" |
| PADS | Balls of something, i. e. cotton, crumpled paper / large amounts of money |
| STARTS | Origins of temperature in great balls of fire (6) |
| JERRYLEELEWIS | "Great Balls of Fire" singer who was a charter inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: 3 wds. |
| BOBA | Variety of cold tea containing balls of pearl tapioca, originating in Taiwan in the 1980s (4) |
| FALAFEL | What Middle Eastern dish consists of deep-fried balls of mashed chickpeas? (7) |
| ROMANCANDLE | Slow-burning cylindrical firework that emits a continuous shower of sparks punctuated by coloured balls of fire (5,6) |
| ROMANCANDLES | Fireworks that produce a continuous shower of sparks punctuated by coloured balls of fire (5,7) |
