| MULLED | Description of red wine or cider infused with aromatic spices including cinnamon, cloves and star anise as a festive winter warmer (6) |
| CHAI | Assam or Darjeeling tea brewed with spices including, cinnamon, cardamom, nutmeg and cloves (4) |
| ALLSPICE | Jamaican pimento berry named for its flavour, comprising a veritable bouquet of aromas including cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and pepper (8) |
| COMET | Meaning "long-haired star", an astronomical body with a nebulous chevelure, such as Hale-Bopp (5) |
| SAMARITAN | I'm a star, an amazing friend to those in need (9) |
| PARCHING | Lightly roasting fresh carp with aromatic spice (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) |
| BISHOP | A senior prelate of an episcopate or "the purple"; or, port/wine mulled with bitter oranges, cloves and spices (6) |
| GARAMMASALA | From Hindi for "hot mixture", a warming blend of ground cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, coriander, cumin, fennel seeds, nutmeg, peppercorns, star anise and other aromatic spices, used extensively in India |
| POMANDER | Orange studded with cloves and other aromatic spices, carried in Elizabethan times to ward off disea |
| FONDUE | Swiss dish consisting of cheese melted in wine or cider, into which small pieces of bread are dipped (6) |
| EXTRACTHOUSE | Seller of cinnamon, cloves and ginger? |
| MULL | To warm wine or cider and add spices |
| ANISE | Star -; Chinese tree with fruits or seed pods ground to make five-spice powder with cinnamon, fennel seeds, cloves and Sichuan peppercorns (5) |
| WILLIAM | Forename of a Lake poet who described glow-worms as Earth-born stars, an evening as beauteous and calm, a multitude of golden daffodils as a host and a crowd and himself as a lonely floating cloud (7) |
| ZANZIBAR | Producing spices including ginger, black pepper, turmeric and cinnamon, a semiautonomous archipelago 25 miles east of the Tanzanian mainland (8) |
| ROUGE | Type of blusher originally made with safflower; French red wine; or, metal polishing powder of ground ferric oxide, also called crocus (5) |
| SPICE | A vegetable substance such as anise, cinnamon, clove, mace, nutmeg or vanilla; said seasonings collectively; an aromatic bouquet or scent; or, anything that adds excitement, ginger or zest (5) |
| CLOVE | Segment of a bulb of garlic; an old weight for cheese or wool; or, from the French meaning "nail", a flower bud of a Moluccan or Zanzibari tree, dried as an aromatic spice (5) |
| MEDIUMDRY | Style of wine or cider (6-3) |
