| PESTO | Basil-based sauce (though you can also use peas or garlic scapes) |
| MANHOLE | Women can also use it for going down (7) |
| BUSLANE | Selection of Arsenal subs turning up that coach may also use? |
| ANDANTE | Also use neat tempo (7) |
| CLOVE | A segment of a bulb or garlic; or, the dried flower bud of a tree related to myrtle used as a traditional painkiller for toothache, or to flavour masala chai, biryani or mulled wine (5) |
| PESTOS | Basil-based sauces |
| SLICE | Take a ___ of lime or lemon and add it to your drink. You can also keep one aside for garnishing! |
| PREGO | Pasta sauce brand with a no onions or garlic Sensitive Recipe variety |
| IKEA | Furniture store where you can also get Swedish meatballs |
| AXE | Chopping tool that you can also spell without its last letter |
| BANANADAIQUIRIS | *Rum cocktails you can also get in Avocado |
| IDYL | A poem you can also have an extra student for (4) |
| KAYAK | You can also paddle it up the creek (5) |
| LOCKSANDBAGELS | Beauty salon where you can also get a quick nosh? |
| BOPIT | Hasbro toy you can also "twist" and "pull" |
| CHIVE | An old word for a small botanical bulb; or, from Latin for "onion", a purple-flowered alliaceous culinary herb with fine green scapes, snipped into creamy sauces, dips, omelettes, salads or scrambled |
| BEANS | If you cracked open maracas, you might find dried peas or ___ inside (Craft-y suggestion: If you want to make a pair at home, put a handful of them in plastic water bottles and get shaking) |
| POD | Seedcase or husk containing garden peas or broad beans; a chilli; a school or social order of dolphins; or, one of the passenger compartments of a big wheel (3) |
| SAGAS | Tales you can also read backwards? |
| UFO | Subject of a congressional report this month urging members to address decades of unexplained sightings; you can also find one in each of our four theme entries |
