| RAYMONDBLANC | French chef who trained Heston Blumenthal and Marco Pierre White |
| BLANC | Chef who trained Heston Blumenthal; or, the French word for white (5) |
| MARCO | ___ Pierre White (chef who trained Gordon Ramsay) |
| LEEDS | City that is the birthplace of chef Marco Pierre White (5) |
| HELLSKITCHEN | Marco Pierre White cooking show (5,7) |
| COOKING | _ is a philosophy; it's not a recipe": Marco Pierre White (7) |
| CHEF | Jamie Oliver or Heston Blumenthal, for example (4) |
| DELICIOUS | Channel 4 food show with Heston Blumenthal, Crazy _ (9) |
| FAT | The ___ Duck, Heston Blumenthal eatery (3) |
| SIGNATUREDISH | Snail porridge for Heston Blumenthal, say |
| WHITE | TV chef and restaurateur, Marco Pierre _ (5) |
| ATHOME | Reception or party held in a person's own house; or, a recipe book by Heston Blumenthal (2-4) |
| MANU | French chef who is a judge on TV'S My Kitchen Rules, ___ Feildel (4) |
| ESCOFFIER | Auguste, French chef who invented peach Melba (9) |
| ROUX | Michel ---, English-French chef who owns London restaurant Le Gavroche (4) |
| TED | 2016 rival of Donald and Marco |
| GEMINIS | Donald Trump and Marco Rubio, e.g. |
| CAREME | Marie-Antoine, French chef who was a pioneer of grande cuisine in the early 19th century (6) |
| EPIE | Gilles ___, renowned French chef who was the youngest in the world to receive a Michelin Star (4) |
| TULL | Agriculturist and agronomist who trained for the Bar but instead farmed his father's land and perfected the horse-drawn seed drill for which he is best known (4) |
