| CORNERSTONE | Basis of cereal a person formerly consumed |
| MATER | School, college or university that a person formerly attended: Latin, 'bountiful mother' (4,5) |
| ALMA | And 15 School, college or university that a person formerly attended: Latin, 'bountiful mother' (4,5) |
| CONVINCED | Certain French wine formerly consumed among diplomats |
| ORMER | Shellfish formerly consumed (5) |
| LIFE | Name of a cereal, a magazine and a board game |
| MUESLI | Breakfast cereal; a mixture of oats, dried fruit and nuts |
| RATEPAYER | Person formerly liable to local property tax (9) |
| EARTHY | Unrefined organ belonging to second person formerly (6) |
| EXPERT | Skilled person, formerly impudent (6) |
| RYE | Cereal, a whiskey base (3) |
| PRICE | Cereal, a penny up - one has to pay it (5) |
| SPECIALK | The Kellogg's cereal a PC likes being dished out (7,1) |
| WHALEMEAT | Male jockeys tucked into cereal, a taboo food nowadays? (5,4) |
| PEARLBARLEY | Variety of cereal grain that has been ground (5,6) |
| OATMEAL | A kind of flour made from crushing the seeds of a type of cereal grass (7) |
| CROP | Hunting/equestrian whip with loop instead of a lash; or, a season's yield of cereal, vegetables, fruit or flowers (4) |
| CORN | Either end of a carton of cereal? (4) |
| EARN | Bring in a little bit of cereal, last of corn (4) |
| QUINOA | Healthy seed, one of five with a lot of cereal (6) |
