| ACERB | Bitter or sour (5) |
| ACRID | Bitter, or sour, right through (5) |
| PHOTO | Soup hot or sour? Removed exposure (5) |
| ACIDY | Corrosive or sour-tasting liquids (5) |
| UMAMI | Description of a flavour other than sweet, sour, bitter or salty (5) |
| TASTE | Sweet, sour, bitter, or salty |
| RANCH | Type of cattle farm after which a buttermilk- or sour cream-based salad dressing derives its name (5) |
| NYSSA | Deciduous tree genus also known as tupelo or sour gum (5) |
| CREAM | Whipped or sour |
| IDIOM | Bad apple or sour grapes, e.g. |
| SWEET | ... or sour |
| LATKE | Pancake with applesauce or sour cream |
| SALTY | Flavor that isn't sweet, sour, bitter, or umami |
| TANSY | Flowering plant also known as cow bitter or golden buttons (5) |
| EMEND | Boss, bitter or brace |
| TANGY | Like grapefruit (in a good way) or sour milk (in a bad way) |
| CRABSTICK | A cane or cudgel of wild apple tree wood; a bad-tempered or sour person; or, a coral-coloured baton of compressed surimi as a snack (4,5) |
| PICKLE | Word, with its roots preserved in "brine", for a soused or steeped foodstuff such as Branston, chutney, fermented cabbage, kimchi, sauerkraut or a spiced gherkin; or, a messy muddle or sour state of a |
| ACID | Corrosive or sour-tasting substance synonymous with biting, bitter, caustic, cutting or vitriolic speech (4) |
| AMANDINE | A protein found in bitter or sweet oval kernels used to make amaretti; a candle, cosmetic cream, garnish or Romanian chocolate cake prepared in some way from said nuts; or, a French "pomme de terre" w |
