| KATSU | Chicken ___ (Japanese dish that's breaded and fried) |
| CUTLETBOTHWAYS | One breaded and grilled and one breaded and fried? |
| OKRA | Breaded and fried pod vegetable that's a side dish at Cracker Barrel |
| CROQUETTE | Breaded and fried tidbit |
| MILANESE | Thinly sliced, breaded, and fried in a trattoria |
| SCHNITZEL | Slice of meat, breaded and fried |
| POPPER | A press-stud; a utensil in which to cook/puff corn kernels; or, a stuffed, breaded and fried jalapeno (6) |
| ESCALOPE | From French for "shell", a culinary term referring to a flattened cutlet of meat, typically breaded and fried in a similar manner to schnitzel (8) |
| UDON | Tempura ___ (Japanese dish) |
| PARM | Breaded and topped with tomato sauce and mozzarella, for short |
| ONO | Yoko ___, Japanese artist and singer (3) |
| YAMAHA | Torakusu ___, Japanese watchmaker born in 1851 who founded a motorcycle and musical instrument manuf |
| ESAKI | Leo ___, Japanese physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Ivar Giaever and Brian David Josephson |
| KOIZUMI | Junichiro ___, Japanese statesman; prime minister and President of the Liberal Democratic Party from 2001 to 2006 (7) |
| TOJO | Hideki ___, Japanese soldier and prime minister hanged as a war criminal in 1948 (4) |
| ISHIGURO | Kazuo ___, Japanese-born British author of novels including The Remains Of The Day and Never Let Me Go (8) |
| SAWAYAMA | Rina _, Japanese and British singer who starred in John Wick: Chapter 4 (8) |
| MARU | Ehime ___ (Japanese fishing ship rammed by a U.S. submarine in 2001) |
| ABE | Shinzo ___, Japanese P.M. |
| SINO | The ___-Japanese War of 1894-95 |
