| ZUCCHINI | Courgette (US) (8) |
| MARROW | Oversized courgette (6) |
| VEGETABLE | Carrot, potato or courgette, for example (9) |
| OCTET | Group desire to leave courgette stewing (5) |
| SCOURGE | Curse hideous courgette wraps (7) |
| OVERACT | A courgette at first wrapped in plain ham (7) |
| CALLOW | Cucurbit of which the courgette is an immature form (6) |
| RICOTTA | Variety of Italian cheese used in dishes such as ravioli, cheesecake, moussaka, aubergine parmigiana and deep-fried courgette flowers (7) |
| CHERVIL | Feathery flatleaf parsley-like herb that can be swirled into courgette soup pounded into butter or sprinkled over mayonnaise or roasted fennel (7) |
| RATATOUILLE | Vegetable stew of Provence, typically consisting of aubergine, courgette, onion, green pepper, tomato and garlic, served hot or cold (11) |
| MINT | Named after a nymph transformed into a plant by Persephone, a herb used for fresh fruit salad, sauce for lamb, peas, courgette fritatta or mango dishes (4) |
| RIBBONS | Driving reins/lines; watchsprings; or, long strips of something such as courgette, grosgrain, satin, tagliatelle or typewriter inking cloth (7) |
| GOURD | Fruit such as a pumpkin, courgette or squash (5) |
| PEPO | Botanical word for a courgette, cucumber, melon, pumpkin, squash or related many-seeded fleshy cucurbit/fruit in the gourd family (4) |
| SQUASH | From "green vegetable eaten green", word for a courgette, pattypan, pumpkin, marrow or related cucurbit; or, a game played with a soft crushable rubber ball of the same name (6) |
| RED | Prince's Little ___ Courgette, salad-based hit? (3) |
| ZUCCHINIS | Another name for courgettes, especially in the US (9) |
| REDCABBAGE | Vegetable grabbed, a courgette's skin roughed up |
| URGE | Press some courgettes |
| PUMPKIN | Fruit known as the king of the vegetable patch, related to squashes, cucumbers, watermelons and courgettes, versatile in cookery as it can be served in sweet, savoury or spicy dishes (7) |
