| APPOINTED | Chosen tart with a soft topping (9) |
| PEPPERONI | Look to keep very soft topping with one sort of pizza |
| BRIE | Soft topping for a cracker |
| FEDORA | Soft topping (6) |
| SOURABAYA | Tart with a horse getting a major settlement in Java (9) |
| HOMITYPIE | Wholemeal pastry tart with a potato, onion, leek and cheese filling, said to have been developed by the Land Girls during the Second World War (6,3) |
| PIE | Short word for a black-and-white bird from which a "paint" horse with a similarly coloured coat derives its name; or, a type of sweet or savoury tart with a pastry top crust (3) |
| SOURDOUGH | Tart with the money or bread? (9) |
| ACIDIFIED | Made tart with LSD I cooked without recipe |
| BAKEWELLPUDDING | A flan or tart with a filling of almond paste and strawberry jam that is a speciality of Derbyshire (8,7) |
| QUICHE | A baked flan or tart with a savoury filling (6) |
| LORRAINE | Quiche ____, a French tart with a filling made of cream, eggs and bacon or ham (8) |
| IRMA | Movie tart with a heart |
| FLAN | Open tart with a sweet or savoury filling (4) |
| CHEESECAKE | Rich tart with a biscuit base (10) |
| MAIDOFHONOUR | Named after the title of a queen or princess's unmarried lady attendant, a dainty English tart with an almond or sweetened milk curd filling, said to have been a favourite of Henry VIII, at Hampton Co |
| OBITER | Old tart - with half a heart, incidentally |
| ACID | Tart with cape wearing a badge |
| ATTRACTS | Draws the makings of a tart with what the Apostles did (8) |
| GRUYERE | Whether in a puff pastry tart with asparagus and peas or in one's croque-monsieur, fondue, French onion soup or gougeres as light as the breeze, this nutty sweet tangy Swiss or alpine-style cheese is |
