| FLUMMERY | Dialect word for a kind of cold porridge, pudding or Scots sowens of oatmeal; blancmange; anything insipid; or, empty talk, humbug, meaningless flattery or nonsense (8) |
| RECORDER | Word for a kind of judge historically, later a chronicler, diarist, Dictaphone, minute-taker, scribe or other person or thing for registering or logging; or, an English flute (8) |
| HAAR | A kind of cold sea mist (4) |
| MAMABEAR | Eater of cold porridge |
| NAUGHTIEST | Worst of anything I kept in home |
| TEACH | "I cannot ___ anybody anything; I can only make them think": Socrates |
| NEEDHELP | "Anything I can do?" |
| NEEDAHAND | "Anything I can help with?" |
| BECK | Northern English word, of Old Norse origin, for a brook or a stream with a stony bed; a summoning nod, wave or forefinger gesture; or, Scots dialect for a bow or a curtsey (4) |
| DINK | Short word for a two-wheeled vehicle with a human for an engine; or, Scots dialect for a nest or swarm of ants, hornets, wasps or wild bees (4) |
| SPENCE | Old dialect or Scots word for a cottage parlour; a buttery, larder, pantry or other storeroom for victuals and domestic equipment; or, a monetary allowance (6) |
| SHAW | An old or dialect word for a copse, thicket or woodland; Scots for the leafy top of a potato/turnip; or, an assumed name of Lawrence of Arabia (4) |
| HOLT | Term for a fortress/keep originally, later a dialect word for a grasp or grip; an otter's riverbank couch, den or lair; a refuge; or, from "twig", a copse, orchard, wood or wooded hill (4) |
| SHAPE | A cookery mould for blancmange, jelly, pudding etc; a phantom; a geometric figure such as a circle, square or triangle; or, a fabric/paper piece, cut out in a particular form (5) |
| QUALE | A "flavourful" charming or strange elementary particle, never found alone; or, a different kind of flavour in the form of low-fat soft cheese, eaten in a dip, a pudding or a sandwich at home (5) |
| COMPOTE | From the French for "mixture", word for a comfiture of syrup-stewed seasonal fruit; the stemmed dish in which said hot/cold pudding or breakfast medley is traditionally served; or, a savoury ragout of |
| WICK | Old or dialect word for a creek, farm, hamlet or village; or, a cord that supplies fuel to a candle or oil lamp's flame by capillary action (4) |
| THIBLE | First woman to fly in a free-floating hot-air balloon; or, a dialect word for a stick for stirring broth or porridge (6) |
| BUSS | An archaic or dialect word for a passionate kiss or loud playful smacker; or, a bluff-bowed Dutch boat for herring or mackerel fishing (4) |
| GRUEL | Name of a thin/liquid food of oatmeal boiled in water; or, an old informal word for punishment (5) |
