| ITIC | Follower of ham or shem |
| HOCK | Old-fashioned British term for white Rhine wine; a knuckle of ham or pork; or, the gambrel of a horse's leg (4) |
| DEVILED | Kind of ham or eggs |
| MORON | One's thick slice of ham or onion (5) |
| SHANK | Cut of ham or lamb (5) |
| GAMMON | Word for ham or a joint of bacon; the lashing of the bowsprit; chatter or patter; a victory in a game played on a board marked with fleches; or, humbug, nonsense or rubbish (6) |
| SEMITE | A member of any of the peoples supposed to be descendants of Shem, son of Noah (old testament), i.e. Jews, Arabs, Assyrians, Phoenicians |
| HASID | Follower of the teachings of Baal Shem-Tov |
| ENGLISHMUSTARD | Served in ham or beef sandwiches, with cooked charcuterie or in vinaigrette, a condiment flavoured with turmeric, either as powder or ready-prepared (7,7) |
| BACON | Cured gammon-, ham- or pancetta-like flitch, known to the French as lard and imagined as the reddish tips of the egg yolk-yellow flowers of the birdsfoot trefoil (5) |
| STER | Ham or team follower |
| PLAYER | Perhaps ham or starter of piri-piri chicken? (6) |
| AMPHORAE | Jars of puréed ham or pea |
| JAPHETH | One of the three sons of Noah in the Old Testament, brother to Shem and Ham (7) |
| NOAH | Father of Japheth, Ham and Shem |
| EGGS | Whether it's Florentine, with spinach, or Benedict, with ham or bacon, these poached items are essen |
| PEASE | Dish of soaked and boiled split peas served with ham or pork (5,7) |
| PEASEPUDDING | Dish of soaked and boiled split peas served with ham or pork |
| AROMA | A smell of chopped ham or apples swirls upwards (5) |
| SIDEORDER | Ham or bacon, maybe |
