| INCREDIBLE | Cold rook shovelled in not fit to eat - or unusually good! |
| RARE | Lightly cooked and unusually good! (4) |
| AMAZEBALLS | Voted as the single most annoying word in modern culture, a neologism used facetiously to mean capital, impressive, spiffing, splendid, super, topping or unusually good (10) |
| UNTIDINESS | Regularly not fit to eat soup for starters in American mess (10) |
| INEDIBLE | Not fit to eat? Lie in, bed's been made |
| TREF | Not fit to eat, in Judaism |
| UNIMPEACHABLE | Not fit to eat writer's fruit that's flawless (13) |
| LUMPY | First of fruit to end year, not good to eat or sleep on? (5) |
| DIGS | Rooted in where a farmer or a goldminer shovelled and, by extension, dwelled, a word for accommodation, lodgings, student rooms or even an archaeologist's temporary hotel (4) |
| SNAP | A winning cry drawing attention to a pair of matching playing cards or to two similar things generally; a quick bite to eat; or, a ginger biscuit (4) |
| HOTPOT | What to eat or what to serve it up in? |
| TURNOVER | Something to eat or to do in bed (8) |
| CASTOROIL | Spoonfuls of this revolting substance were shovelled into children for generations to 'keep them reg |
| MATERNAL | Like woman raising issue or unusually alert man (8) |
| OVERMYDEADBODY | Where six feet of earth shovelled? Not if I can help it! |
| HOVEL | Shovelled to get sled out of the shack ... (5) |
| ORTHODOX | Normal or unusually hot party for over-18s only (8) |
| EDIBLE | Slice of beef in deli, chopped close to bone, is fit to eat (6) |
| DRESSES | Gets ready to eat, or to be eaten |
| PEA | It may be sweet to eat, or not (3) |
