| DRAGEE | French word for a sugared almond, a chocolate chip, a medicated sweet or a silvered candy bead for a cake (6) |
| NOUGAT | Confection flavoured with honey and pistachios/almonds; a specialty of Montelimar (6) |
| COMFIT | With a Medieval recipe based on caraway, a sugar-coated or "panned" seed, spice or nut in the form of a sugared almond, aniseed ball or liquorice dragee (6) |
| SEQUIN | Word originally for a Venetian gold coin, later a spangle- or paillette-like flat shiny foil bead for embellishing a garment or a costume (6) |
| PASTILLE | Not well? Stick around with a medicated sweet (8) |
| PRALINE | A sugared almond (7) |
| BUGLE | Tubular glass bead for textiles; or, an instrument used for military signals (5) |
| ALPHABETIC | Badly chip a table, like characters in a demo |
| BARGAINING | ___ chip, a potential concession for advantage in negotiations (10) |
| AGRAPHIA | Chip a rag about being unable to write (8) |
| BONBONNIERE | French word for a small ornamental box, drageoir or lidded jar for chocolates, sugared almonds or other sweets; or, confectionery used as a table decoration at a wedding party or other celebration (11 |
| DROP | A pendant; a precipice; a lemon- or pear-flavoured sweet; a trapdoor on a gallows; or, a chocolate chip (4) |
| JELLY | From the Latin for "freeze, frost", a word for American jam, a colourful PVC sandal, a marine medusa, savoury aspic, a Scottish conserve, a sugared pastille, a Temazepam capsule and a wobbly fruit pud |
| SAVOURY | Based on the Latin for "taste", a word used to describe a piquant, salty or spicy flavour as opposed to sweet; or, a dish, canape, nibble, snack etc with said umami quality (7) |
| DOL | A short word for the $ or the Italian "sweet"; or, a measure of pain (3) |
| FLAN | Quiche or tart, savoury or sweet; or, a disc from which a coin is minted (4) |
| TUTTIFRUTTI | Italian term, roughly translating as "all things, all the works", for a preserve, sweet or a US-style ice cream enjoyed for its all-singing all-dancing medley of candied papaya, glace cherries, pineap |
| ABACUS | A block or tablet on the capital of a classical architectural column; or, a frame with beads for counting units, tens, hundreds etc, that is the ancient ancestor of the modern calculator (6) |
| CONFETTI | Italian word for sugared almonds used to describe the pastel-coloured paper pieces or petals traditionally flung over newly-weds (8) |
| CARPENTER | Known informally as a "chippy" or "chips", a cabinetmaker, joiner, woodworker or wright (9) |