| KIRSCH | Eau de vie derived from morello cherries, sometimes used to flavour Black Forest gateau (6) |
| PIEFILLING | Apples or cherries, sometimes |
| CHERRY | Bean-like fruit of the coffee tree; or a fruit that can be glaceed, or used to flavour kirch/maraschino, clafoutis or Black Forest gateau (6) |
| FRAISE | French word for a strawberry or an aromatic eau de vie distilled from such (6) |
| VENDEE | Sell case of eau de vie in part of France (6) |
| COGNAC | French variety of eau de vie (6) |
| BRANDY | Eau de vie (6) |
| GRAPPA | Italian eau de vie made from winepress residue |
| FLORIN | Old foreign coin, sometimes used to mean the Dutch guilder (6) |
| ICEBOX | What old-fashioned term is sometimes used to describe a refrigerator in the US? (6) |
| LAPTOP | Device sometimes used to watch movies (6) |
| VELOUR | A plush fabric resembling velvet, sometimes used to make track suits for suburbanite |
| COSTMARY | Herb related to daisies, tansy and chamomile, sometimes used to flavour English ale or dried for potpourri (8) |
| TATERS | They're sometimes used to make tots |
| WORCESTER | Cathedral city, site of a battle that brought to an end the English Civil War and where a brand of sauce sometimes used to flavour Bloody Mary originated (9) |
| AMARETTO | Almond-flavoured Italian liqueur such as Disaronno, sometimes used to flavour tiramisu (8) |
| SLOE | Fruit sometimes used to flavour gin (4) |
| MIRABELLES | Yellow-skinned fruits related to greengages, plums and damsons; specialities of the Lorraine region of France used to make eau de vie (10) |
| LUMPBRANDY | Eau de vie applied to a head injury to reduce swelling? |
| FOR | Keen on a bit of Black Forest gateau (3) |
