| PALATE | Dish encapsulating a sense of taste (6) |
| ARMPIT | Hollow sculpture, perhaps, encapsulating a reflection of the early afternoon? (6) |
| PALACE | Home encapsulating a royal residence (6) |
| NUANCE | Religious woman encapsulating a church in subtle degree (6) |
| ESCAPE | Key gym encapsulating a distraction (6) |
| OOMPAH | Exciting quality encapsulating a trombone's sound |
| PAL | Father is behind-time in developing a sense of taste (6) |
| ATE | Father is behind time in developing a sense of taste (6) |
| MOTTO | From the Latin for "murmur" and the Italian for "word", a slogan such as that encapsulating a family's beliefs on their coat of arms; a quotation prefacing a book or chapter; or, a joke, riddle or scr |
| NUTSHELL | A hard husk encasing a kernel or encapsulating a few figurative words (8) |
| TASTEBUD | One of numerous small end organs of the sense of taste (5,3) |
| UMAMI | Though it sounds like a schoolyard insult, it's actually a Japanese term meaning "the 6th sense of taste" |
| ASTRONAUT | Manoeuvre or a stunt encapsulating a space traveller (9) |
| AVARICE | A fault encapsulating a profiteer ultimately? (7) |
| BRAVO | Brother encapsulating a very short expression of approval (5) |
| TAUREAN | Evil nature encapsulating a Mayday baby, say? |
| QUANTUMLEAP | New plaque encapsulating a northern corporation's breakthrough |
| PROVERB | Saying encapsulating a general truth |
| MEMORABLE | Significant symbol, trimmed at edges, encapsulating a city after revolution |
| TURANDOT | Opera performance encapsulating a point |
