| PICKLES | Choose a chap something sour |
| CRAYON | Prisoner gets chap something to write with (6) |
| PICNIC | Choose a chap, say, for alfresco meal (6) |
| YOGHURT | After a bit of meditation a pain to eat something sour (7) |
| PUCKER | What your lips might do when you eat something sour that could make a person think you want to give them a kiss |
| GETINTOAPICKLE | Eat something sour with a troublemaker? |
| GOLDENCASKET | In 2.7, the first suitor must choose a casket. Portia has told him: "One of them contains my picture, prince. If you choose that, then I am yours withal." Which casket does he choose? |
| PICAROON | Choose a mystic symbol, say, identifying a rogue |
| ELECTROPLATING | Choose a long trip, forsaking a silver lining? (14) |
| ELECTRA | Choose a painter to capture a complex character (7) |
| PICCALILLI | In a pickle, choose a flower for hearing (10) |
| RENTON | "Choose life," he said, "choose a job..." (6) |
| ELECTRODE | Conductor to choose a baton with a point at the end (9) |
| PICADOR | Choose a way in to hear performer in a ring (7) |
| PICCALILI | Choose a flower, we're told, when in a pickle (9) |
| ALOTTERY | In 1.2, Portia's waiting woman Nerissa talks about Portia's father devising a system so that Portia may choose a husband. What is she talking about? |
| TAYLORSWIFT | She donated $50,000 to Boston's Horace Mann School for the Deaf in 2012 after it suspiciously won an online poll set up to choose a school where she'd play a concert |
| STRIKEABALANCE | Delete a thing given by bank and choose a middle-of-the-road course (6,1,7) |
| REMAP | Choose a different route |
| TAKETHEHIGHROAD | Choose a favored course |
