| INEFFECT | Essentially, head chef consumed by Fifteen somehow (2,6) |
| SAMOSA | Back in Burkina Faso, master chef consumed savoury pastry |
| NUTSHELL | In this, essentially head's torment (8) |
| CILLIAN | ___ Murphy, actor who plays Tommy, essentially head of the Shelby family in 14A (pictured) (7) |
| DOCTORWHO | British sci-fi series whose lead role has been played by fifteen different actors |
| FIFTEEN | Number represented by XV in Roman numerals (7) |
| BOCCONOC | This old head chef works between noon and two o'clock in the Boar's Head about a mile from Braddock (8) |
| SPECIFIC | Mixed spice rejected, if head chef is particular (8) |
| CROCKERY | Pottery head chef used to cork rye with (8) |
| CENSURED | Blamed head chef before having made certain |
| CAULDRON | Locals indicate old Mr Drew following head chef with big pot |
| STBROECK | My brother, a head chef who lives in Stoke, is arranging to come and visit my village near Wadebridge (2,6) |
| INCHARGE | Take a slice of sirloin, char gently just like a head chef (2,6) |
| PASSAGES | Where the head chef works on half the messages from old books (8) |
| DELICACY | Escorted over, I see, with extreme audacity, to take in head chef preparing exquisite morsel |
| CAREFREE | Happy-go-lucky head-chefs are complimentary (8) |
| CREPE | Head chef half-repelled by extremely thin dessert? |
| SPRINKLE | The first recipe written by Spike, a head chef from Calne, turned out to be not quite right -- it needed a small amount of sugar to be added (8) |
| EGGON | Sounds like something commis chef would say to head chef during breakfast service to goad a reaction |
| SOUS | _ chef, the person ranking next after the head chef in a kitchen (4) |
