| BISCUIT | Food such as a ginger nut or the former sailor staple "hardtack"; pale brown; or, unglazed pottery (7) |
| PEONY | Depicted in Chinese art, a pink or white but never blue flower often displayed in a glass bowl or vintage vessel such as a ginger jar or trophy (5) |
| GINGER | Plant with aromatic rootstocks often crystallised or used to flavour parkin, biscuits known as nuts or the pop favoured in picnic luncheons by the fictional Famous Five gang |
| SNAP | An audible bite; a sudden release or breakage of an elastic band; a cold spell; a ginger nut; dialect for a packed lunch; or, a disappearing photo or video sent on a popular chat app (4) |
| ALMOND | Influenced by medieval Latin for "loveable", a kernel with an oval shape resembled by the brain's emotional processing centre, or "amygdala"; or, a creamy pale-brown or pistachio colour of such a rosa |
| BUTTON | A fastener or toggle; a switch on a doorbell; a small disc of chocolate; or, the former F1 driver, Jenson (6) |
| TOPPING | Surface layer of food such as a sauce, garnish, sprinkles or any of those on a pizza; or, a dated word meaning excellent or splendid (7) |
| DUNDERFUNK | A seafarer or sailor's name for a type of hardtack that combined ship's biscuit with molasses and was baked until brown in a pan as an attempt to make a pudding (10) |
| PATRON | From the Latin meaning "father", a guardian saint; a protector or benefactor; or, the former master of a freedman in ancient Rome (6) |
| COMET | Depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, a celestial body such as Halle-Bopp or the former Shoemaker-Levy 9 (5) |
| SEAPIE | A sailor's varying layered dish of salt meat with a hardtack or pastry crust, traditionally eaten on the briny/main; or, the original name, referring to its black-and-white plumage, for an oystercatch |
| ABBEY | Type of monastery such as the one on the island of Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy, or the former Benedictine monastery in Cluny, Burgundy (5) |
| PASTRY | General word for a food such as a croissant, profiterole or eclair (6) |
| RACE | A ginger root; a class of wine; a division of humankind; an onward rush; a rapid current of water; a millrun; or, a contest in speed or getting ahead (4) |
| MOGGY | A pet form of "Margaret" that is given as a nickname to a cat, a cow, a ginger cake or a scarecrow (5) |
| TEABISCUIT | A digestive, ginger nut, hobnob, malted milk, petticoat-tail or other semi-sweet perhaps "rich" afternoon snap or cookie to be enjoyed with a cuppa or brazenly dunked into one's bone china-cupped brew |
| FAWN | Word, from "offspring", for a young deer; or, said bambi's pale brown or fallow colour (4) |
| SCHOOL | Finishing -; establishment such as Institut Villa Pierrefeu or the former Institut Alpin Videmanette |
| CAKE | Food such as a Victoria sponge, traybake or a brownie (4) |
| SOFT | - fruit; horticultural name for a food such as a blueberry, raspberry, strawberry, black/redcurrant |
