| EPICURUS | Greek philosopher who gave his name to a word for a lover of gourmet food and drink |
| EPICURE | Lover of gourmet food |
| MARX | Philosopher who gave his name to an -ism |
| DRACO | Statesman who lent his name to a word for "strict" |
| STENTOR | Herald of Greek mythology, giving his name to a word meaning 'loud-voiced' (7) |
| DELI | Type of gourmet food shop. (4) |
| OSTRICHEGG | Get so upset about costly starter of gourmet food (7,3) |
| BALL | Assembly for dancing, whose name is related to a word for a classical dance and what was traditionally a type of dance song (4) |
| DUMMY | Thought related to a word for a doughball, an adjective for a plump, short or stout person; a squat umbrella; or, a short-legged fowl (5) |
| PALLET | Term for a flat wooden blade that is related to a word for a flat wooden board for the mixture of paints (6) |
| LABRYS | Name, thought to be connected to a word for a maze, for the symbolic Minoan double-axe or pelekys (6) |
| ASPECT | Term, from "to look" and related to a word for eyeglasses, for outlook; or, view in a specific direction (6) |
| ELARA | A moon of Jupiter in the Himalia group, named for a lover of Zeus (5) |
| GARGOYLE | From the Old French for "throat" and related to a word for a tracheal gurgling sound, a waterspout in grotesque human or animal form (8) |
| RIDE | Term, related to a word for a highway, for a journey on horseback or bike via such a lane, street or track (4) |
| POULT | Word for a young bird that's related to a word for domesticated birds |
| ASTROID | Similar to a word for a minor planet, one for a geometric star-like curve (7) |
| CATERPILLAR | Provide food and support for a lover of greens |
| BOOHOO | Nursery-talk-derived interjection imitative of the sound of noisy weeping, which is similar to a word for a blunder (3-3) |
| BURNET | A herb, moth, medieval cloth, saxifrage or wild rose whose name is similar to a word for brown hair (6) |
