| COULIS | French word for a thin puree of raspberries or other soft fruit as a sauce for cheesecake, ice cream, mousse or other pudding (6) |
| BAND | Raspberries or Cream, say |
| PUNNET | Small basket or "pottle" for strawberries and other soft fruits (6) |
| RIBES | Genus of blackcurrants, gooseberries and other soft fruits whose flavour is a sharply tart surprise, much like the Syrian rhubarb from which their name mistakenly derives (5) |
| SLIVER | Word for a thin bit, whether a chip of petit four, flake of almond, slice of cake, wafer of cheese, shred of hope or a shard of light under one's door (6) |
| SPREAD | A bedcover; a feast laid on a table; the face-up appearance of a diamond; a double page; or, butter, jam, pate or other soft tasty topping for bread (6) |
| LATTICE | From an old word for a thin slat of wood, a decorative arrangement of criss-crossed strips forming an espalier, fretwork, grating, grille, mesh, piecrust or trellis; or, a window with diamond-shaped p |
| MIGNONETTE | Expressing the diminutive of French for "darling", "dainty" or "small and sweet", a plant in the genus Reseda with spires of fragrant chartreuse or white flowers; fine pillow lace; or, a sauce for fre |
| MASH | A brewer's mixture of crushed malt grains and hot water; a warm porridgelike bran feed for horses; a champ-like puree of butter, milk and potatoes; any other soft pulpy concoction; or, northern dialec |
| 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) |
| SPLINE | Word for a thin slat; a narrow key with which to mate rotating elements; or, a flexible strip for drawing curves (6) |
| PULP | Word for fruit flesh; cellulosic mush for paper-making; papier-mache or other soft formless mass; a cheap sensational book/magazine; crushed ore; sentimentality; or, nonsense (4) |
| APPLESAUCE | A puree of stewed Bramleys or other cookers as a traditional accompaniment to roast pork or goose; or, 1920s slang for balderdash, nonsense, rhubarb or rubbish (5,5) |
| BRANDY | Word linking with "butter" for a sauce for Christmas pudding or "snap" for a cream-filled biscuit (6) |
| DABS | Informal word for the fingertips; aces, adepts or experts; small plaice- or sole-like flatfishes sometimes caught by trawlers or shrimpers; gentle pats or taps; or, blobs of chocolate, glue, ink, pain |
| ESCALOPE | From cutlet to schnitzel - a culinary word for a thin slice of breaded fried tenderised meat, echoing in name and form an Old French "shell" (8) |
| DAL | From Sanskrit for "to split", dried beans, lentils and other pulses in Indian cookery; a curry or puree of said legumes; or, a yellow-flowered tropical herb, also called pigeon pea (3) |
| PASTEL | Originally just a lump of "dough", now lavender, mint green, peach, powder blue or any other soft delicate muted colour of the spectrum or rainbow (6) |
| MOCCASIN | Soft-soled shoe made of deerskin or other soft leather (8) |
| PELAGE | The hair, fur, wool or other soft covering of a mammal (6) |
