| BRINDISI | Case of Berlusconi maintaining zest is toast in Italy (8) |
| NIGELSLATER | Food writer and cook whose autobiography is Toast (5,6) |
| CHAR | Short guide is toast (4) |
| STACCATO | Copy a toast in detached style (8) |
| BUTTERED | Like toast in bed, say (8) |
| STATIONS | Toasts in recollection of Connolly, Pearse and MacBride (8) |
| OATCAKES | Replacements for toast in a Scottish breakfast |
| CHINCHIN | Toast in dishes cut twice (4-4) |
| CROSTINI | "Little toasts," in Italian |
| ASLEEP | As zest is raised in the land of Nod (6) |
| AMAZING | In the morning, tiny bit of amanatsu zest is fantastic (7) |
| DIOR | He said, "Zest is the secret of all beauty" |
| GUSTO | Zest is a burst of wind, nothing more (5) |
| TENDERBUTTONS | Gertrude Stein book with the line "There is no use at all in a smell, in taste, in teeth, in toast, in anything . . ." |
| NUMEROUNO | Romeo cavorting with nun around wing of Uffizi? Berlusconi once (6,3) |
| ITALIAN | Berlusconi for one in restaurant (7) |
| SILVIO | First name of Italian politician and businessman Berlusconi (6) |
| FRENCH | Type of toast, in a manner of speaking, in Canada (6) |
| PEELAPPEAL | Why orange zest is popular? |
| CIAO | Hello and goodbye, as Berlusconi might have put it (4) |
