| SPICES | Cloves and ginger |
| EXTRACTHOUSE | Seller of cinnamon, cloves and ginger? |
| CHAI | Quaff with cloves and cardamom |
| POMANDER | Orange studded with cloves and other aromatic spices, carried in Elizabethan times to ward off disea |
| ALLSPICE | The whole or powdered seeds of a tropical berry, tasting like a mixture of cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg (8) |
| SPICED | Description of curry, roasted nuts or Bombay mix flavoured with masala, or of mulled wine, rum or chai with cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg (6) |
| MULLED | Description of red wine or cider infused with aromatic spices including cinnamon, cloves and star anise as a festive winter warmer (6) |
| ANISE | Star -; Chinese tree with fruits or seed pods ground to make five-spice powder with cinnamon, fennel seeds, cloves and Sichuan peppercorns (5) |
| BECHAMEL | Named after a steward of Louis XIV, a classic white sauce infused with bay leaves, black peppercorns, cloves and onion (8) |
| BISHOP | A senior prelate of an episcopate or "the purple"; or, port/wine mulled with bitter oranges, cloves and spices (6) |
| GARAMMASALA | Spice blend that usually includes cloves and cumin |
| MYRTLE | Related to allspice, clove and eucalyptus, a shrub with white flowers and purple-black berries; one of Aphrodite's symbols (6) |
| LEYDEN | What is the dark yellow, semi- hard cheese spiced with caraway, clove and cumin and made in the Netherlands from cows milk? (6) |
| AMADO | "Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon" author |
| DANCEPARTNERS | Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, e.g., and, literally, what the first words of the answers to starred |
| STAGE | 17 and 5 1937 comedy-drama film starring Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers (5,4) |
| TOPHAT | 1935 film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers and featuring the song Cheek to Cheek |
| DUO | Fred and Ginger, Simon and Garfunkel, e.g. (3) |
| TURMERIC | From "meritorious earth", a plant related to cardamom and ginger from whose zingiberaceous rhizome a yellow spice and dye is derived (8) |
| DOOR | 17 and 5 1937 comedy-drama film starring Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers (5,4) |
