| AMICABLE | Cordial or friendly |
| WARM | Word used to mean ardent or eager; close to discovery, as in a game; comfortably-off; cordial or tender; fresh, as in a scent or trail; primarily red or yellow in tone; sunny; or, tepid (4) |
| SQUASH | Fruit-flavoured type of cordial or presse; a gourd or pepo such as a pattypan, butternut or buttercup; or, a fast-moving racket sport (6) |
| SHRUB | Mixed drink of lemon, spices, sugar and rum that shares its name with a bushy type of plant such as the Christmas box; or, a fruit cordial or syrup of raspberry or other fruit with added vinegar, for |
| SWEETS | Word for beloveds, darlings or dears; bonbons, candies, confects, sticky puddings, sugarplums and the like; cordials or wines flavoured with syrup; or, the delights or pleasures of something, such as |
| ELDERFLOWER | Blooms of a hedgerow tree or shrub in the genus Sambucus, used to make cordial or paired with ingred |
| CASSIS | French word for a blackcurrant; a rather syrupy cordial or liqueur made from said berry; or, a wine note/flavour suggestive of this (6) |
| ANISE | Cordial or biscotti flavoring |
| MARASCHINO | Cordial or liqueur distilled from cherries (10) |
| KINDEST | Most cordial or sincere, ... regards |
| ANIS | Spanish cordial or liqueur (4) |
| ROSEHIPS | Red haw-like fruits found in hedgerows, used to make natural skincare products, cordial or syrup (4,4) |
| ELDER | Deciduous tree native to the UK; a forager's shrub with edible crops including berries for jam and flowers for cordial or champagne (5) |
| GRENADINE | French pomegranate cordial or syrup used to flavour a tequila sunrise (9) |
| ROSOLIO | Aromatic Italian cordial or liqueur flavoured with petals, raisins, spices and formerly the plant "daily dew" (7) |
| REBUFF | An abrupt or ungracious spurning of an offer, request or friendly gesture (6) |
| RIFTS | Breaks, cracks or gaps in things such as cloud masses, Earth's lithosphere or friendly relations (5) |
| ECO | Prefix with system or friendly |
| LONGHOP | Protracted dance, or friendly ball? (4,3) |
| AMIABLE | Likable or friendly (7) |
