| CHARLOTTERUSSE | Cold tart with crisp base - see us tucking in for dessert |
| PABULUM | Sailor's first of us tucking into fruit and rare food |
| SWEETENER | A few of us tucking into entrees sorted out a financial inducement (9) |
| CELERY | Based on the Greek for "parsley", an umbellifer, such as the "pascal" variety with crisp leaf-stalks served in salads or used as a base ingredient in the aromatic mixture mirepoix (6) |
| MADEACLEANBREAK | Left, with no interest in coming back, for cooked up avocado starter with crisp batter (4,1,5,5) |
| ACETIC | Call round in pursuit of a cold tart (6) |
| ACIDIC | Investigators tucked in to perfect cold tart (6) |
| SCOUR | Search for cold tart to consume (5) |
| APRICOTS | Fruits in the rose family, traditionally glaceed in France, used to make jam for Sachertorte or baked in tarts with frangipane (8) |
| QUICHE | Savoury flan or tart with a pastry base baked blind with beans (6) |
| ENDIVE | Plant with crisp curly leaves evident mostly in a salad (6) |
| ACID | To help, brought round a cold tart (4) |
| ACCEPT | Stomach a cold tart primarily containing mushroom |
| CHARLOTTE | Name hot beverage mostly after cold tart (9) |
| CHARLOTTEBRONTE | Writer's no better somehow after cold tart (9,6) |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| FREEZEDRYING | What an American cop might say to thief with crisp gin cocktail to get it cold rapidly (6-6) |
| FUJI | Dessert apple variety with crisp, sweet flesh and an orange flush to the skin - named after the Mount (4) |
| BLT | Sandwich with crisp meat, for short |
