| PICKLE | Choose the French gherkin (6) |
| PICKLES | Select the French gherkins (7) |
| CORNICHON | Pickled french gherkin, usually flavoured with tarragon (9) |
| SELECT | Choose the French to infiltrate religious group (6) |
| LONDON | The commercial building known informally as "The Gherkin" is in this city (6) |
| EJECT | Kick out Eastern judge and choose the French discard (5) |
| FOSTER | Norman -, architect whose works include 30 St Mary Axe, London, aka The Gherkin (6) |
| DECIDE | Choose the dunderhead's way to roll the dice (6) |
| SOUSED | Soaked, pickled (gherkin); drunk (colloq.) |
| HOOFIT | Choose the sidewalk over the bus, say |
| ISLAND | Mayonnaise with tomato sauce and chopped gherkins (8,6,8) |
| LESSER | Choose the ... of two evils |
| SCULLS | Boarding vessel, choose the best oars |
| NOTWAR | Choose the hippy type of action? (4,4,3,3) |
| SELECTS | Chooses the French in groups (7) |
| NORMANFOSTER | Architect whose works include the terminal building at Stansted Airport and the Gherkin (6,6) |
| DILLPICKLE | A vinegar-soused herb-infused cucumber transformed into the pantry delight also called a gherkin (4,6) |
| HUNGERSTRIKE | Revolting gherkin's true reason to refuse grub? (6,6) |
| HAMBURGERS | Some Germans enrolled next to The Gherkin (10) |
| AXE | St Mary ---, location of the "Gherkin" in London (3) |
