| CROUTONS | Fried bread pieces used to garnish dishes served in the Grenoble manner with beurre noisette and capers (8) |
| TUILE | French wafer biscuit formed with a rolling pin, used to garnish dishes such as panna cotta or sorbet (5) |
| PIES | Dishes served in the final scene of "Titus Andronicus" |
| MEUNIERE | Meaning 'miller's wife', a food such as sole dredged in flour, fried and served with beurre noisette (8) |
| GNOCCHI | Dumplings made of pieces of semolina pasta or potato, used to garnish soup or served alone with sauce (7) |
| TILES | Flat pieces used to form words in Scrabble; or, architectural slabs known in Portugal as azulejos (5) |
| CHOCOLATE | From cacao bean to wrapped bar, a universally esteemed food, such as the couverture variety for enrobing and ganache, or the Italian gianduja sort blended with noisette paste (9) |
| MATELOTE | From French for "mariner-style" and "sailor", a stew of freshwater fish cooked with beurre manie, bouquet garni, pearl onions and wine (8) |
| BORAGE | A mildly cucumber-flavoured herb with azure, cerulean or sky-blue star-shaped flowers beloved by bumblebees and honey bees and used to garnish a claret/Pimm's cup (6) |
| CUBITS | Copper pieces used to measure up in the Bible (6) |
| CUCUMBER | Gourd eaten sliced in sandwiches or used to garnish a G&T with mint (8) |
| CREPE | Pancake served with beurre Suzette |
| LEMON | Fruit used to flavour gremolata, posset, Madeira cake, pancakes, mulled wine, mincemeat and beurre blanc (5) |
| CHERRY | Fruit baked in frangipane tart, clafoutis or used to garnish black forest gateau (6) |
| SMORGASBORD | A variety of cold or hot savoury dishes served in Scandinavia as hors d'oeuvres or as a buffet meal |
| HAZELNUT | Whether eaten by a dormouse, squirrel or woodpecker in the wild or by a human in chocolate spread or a gold foil-wrapped Ferrero praline ball, it is a cob, filbert or noisette (8) |
| OUTDO | In the open air with fleece and cap |
| CORK | Stopper such as that of a champagne bottle topped with a muselet and cap/plaque collected in the hobby of placomusophilia (4) |
| SOPS | Bread pieces in liquid |
| FLEURONS | Glyphs also called printers' flowers; architectural element forming some Corinthian abaci; or, puff-pastry crescents used to garnish soups and starters (8) |
