| DELICACY | Fine food, a weakness (8) |
| FLIPFLOP | A soggy mess of food; a blundering use of a word; a person, such as a character in Joseph Andrews, guilty of said malapropism; an alternative name for a rubber thong; or, twaddle (8) |
| ANEURYSM | A swelling in a blood vessel caused by a weakness in its wall (8) |
| SLIPSHOD | A word for sloshy soggy matter; unappetising food; a loose sandal; a malapropism (in reference to a character in Fielding's Joseph Andrews); a person who commits such Dogberryisms; or, twaddle (8) |
| ACHILLES | Greek hero with a weakness in his heel (8) |
| TRENCHER | A slice of bread or wooden board as a primitive platter upon which to cut food; a mortarboard; or, a digger (8) |
| SOFTSPOT | Woolly dog one has a weakness for? (4,4) |
| JAMAICAN | Caribbean breakfast food: a tin one has opened (8) |
| FORAGERS | Those outside looking for food a long time around end of the year (8) |
| BURGUNDY | Knocked back food - a French dory, filleted - and wine (8) |
| SERFHOOD | Fresh, cooked food's a non-starter for agricultural labourers (8) |
| PLANKTON | Fish food, a lot taken on board |
| FRIESIAN | Provider of milk and hot food, a Scot? |
| ACHILLESHEEL | He chills cocktail with a swimmer - a weakness (8,4) |
| AVARICE | Greed is a weakness, a redhead admitted (7) |
| SHORTCOMING | Having a Scotch, perhaps, en route's a weakness |
| FLAW | A sound floor, but with a weakness (4) |
| CHOP | A brand; a crack; a piece cut off; a sharp downward blow with an axe, cleaver or hand; diced food; a slice of lamb or pork; or, ocean waves (4) |
| AWE | Wonder if there's a bit of a weakness (3) |
| FRAILTY | A weakness for a woman's name in Shakespeare? (7) |
