| 20 answers for: Bread-bakers', cake-makers' or cocktail-shakers' u... |
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| RANK | ANSWER | CLUE |
| ZESTERS | Bread-bakers', cake-makers' or cocktail-shakers' utensils for removing fine shreds or twists of peel from lemons, limes, oranges and other citrus fruits (7) |
| OPENERS | Any of various utensils for removing crowns from beer bottles, lids from tin cans or for unfastening envelops (7) |
| TWEEZERS | Instruments for removing fine objects from the skin |
| PIPING | Fabric-covered cord for trimming the edges of cushions or garments such as pyjamas; or, lines or twists of icing or whipped cream for decorating cakes or puddings (6) |
| BARMEN | Cocktail shakers? |
| WISPS | Fine shreds (5) |
| CHIFFONNADE | French culinary term for leaf vegetables like lettuce and sorrel, cut into shreds or strips and used as a garnish |
| FRAGMENTAL | Fine shred of intellect gets broken (10) |
| PLAYS | Shreds or jams, say |
| STEMGINGER | Stock well-known baker's cake ingredient? (4,6) |
| ICING | Baker's cake topping (5) |
| SPILL | Quantity of upset milk or oil, for example; or, a splinter of wood or twist of paper for transferring a flame to a candle or an open fire (5) |
| FRINGE | A border of loose threads, tassels or twists; hair or "bangs" falling over one's brow; non-mainstream theatre; or, a bright or dark band produced by diffraction or interference of light (6) |
| VESTIGE | Word, from French via Latin for "footprint", for a trace or remnant of something disappearing, gone or lost; or, a scrap, shred or least amount (7) |
| COOLERS | Mocktails, refreshers or spritzers with fruit juice, berries, twists of lemon zest etc; Eskys or iceboxes/ chests used for camping, picnics or pleasure trips; or, refrigerators (7) |
| CURLS | Chocolate "blossoms", eddies of water, twists of lemon zest, wreaths of smoke or other things likened to the shape of ringlets of hair (5) |
| CUE | A pigtail, plait or twist of hair at the back of the head, hence a long thin stick for snooker; the last words of an actor's speech, serving as an intimation to the next histrio to speak; or, any prom |
| PEELER | An old word for policeman; or, a utensil for removing the skin from a potato or a carrot (6) |
| MIXER | Word for a blender, cocktail shaker, socialiser, troublemaker or other combining, muddling, mingling or stirring person or thing (5) |
| COILS | From the Latin for "collect, gather together", a word for spirals, helices or twists, such as those observed in incense, ropes, snakes, springs or wires; or, figurative entanglements, hubbubs, perplex |
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