| MACAROON | Chewy almond biscuit or cake (8) |
| RATAFIA | Almond biscuit or cake (7) |
| BISCOTTI | Italian almond biscuit (8) |
| RATAFIAS | Rodents eating Mafia's unwrapped almond biscuits (8) |
| AMARETTI | Almond biscuits (8) |
| CRACKERS | Word for a hard type of plain or savoury biscuit; or, something equally as crisp, crunchy, shattery or snappable, such as peanut brittle, a hard nutty filling for confectionery or a scratching of friz |
| PETIT | Word linking with "four" for a bite-sized fancy biscuit or cake, "pain" for a bread roll or "pois" for young peas (5) |
| ICERS | Sugarcrafters who literally take the biscuit or cake when butter-creaming a bun, frosting a fancy, glazing a gateau or glace-enrobing a sweet bake (5) |
| COOKIE | Small sweet biscuit or cake (6) |
| MATTRESS | Word, from Arabic for "thing thrown down", hence "carpet, cushion, mat", for a "biscuit" or palliasse for a bed (8) |
| CRACKNEL | Name, similar to a school-dinner classic of chocolate cornflake cake and onomatopoeically rooted in Dutch for "snap", of a light crisp brittle often twice-baked savoury biscuit; or, a hard nutty filli |
| OATCAKES | Savoury (traditionally Scottish) biscuits; or, Staffordshire pancakes (8) |
| DEMERARA | Brown sugar in large crystals used to add crunch to cheesecake bases, crumbles and shortbread biscuits; or, a variety of dark Guyanese rum (8) |
| TUILE | Thin almond biscuit shaped around |
| BAKE | A batch or devil's dozen of 13 loaves or rolls cooked at one time, say; any one of the baps, cobs or pastries made; an all-in-one supper, roasted in a tray; or, a Scottish biscuit or floury bun (4) |
| DUNK | Word for a baptismal dip or sectarian immersion that became a biscuit or piece of bread's fateful plunge into one's cup or soup; a swift head-under-water duck; or, a basketball's slam or shot through |
| THIN | Description of the "red line" of the British Army or "blue line" of the police force; a crisp/fine ginger biscuit or mint chocolate; a climb with scarce or small holds; or, a word generally meaning le |
| ROUND | An annular shortbread biscuit or piece of pastry; a disc of beef; a ring dance; or, a circuit, cycle, revolution or other circular or repetitious thing (5) |
| SNAP | Word either for a ginger biscuit or thin; a cold spell; a card game; or, a quick or informal photo (4) |
| FINGER | Quantity of spirits in a glass based on the breadth of a digit; a long, narrow biscuit or sponge cake; or, one of the stalls of a glove (6) |
