| ATTEMPTED | Had a shot at cooking nothing less than potted meat (9) |
| PASTRY | Dad's shot at cooking? |
| ALBATROSS | Golf score a mariner had a shot at? |
| RILLETTES | Potted meat European found among nettles (9) |
| GERMANIUM | What may be potted meat's first eaten? That's elementary (9) |
| TARANTULA | Natural at cooking something poisonous (9) |
| ANARCHISM | Chaos theory? It brings nothing less than chaos in random access memory (9) |
| WEBBED | Like the foot of a beaver, we had a shot at early education |
| GUESSED | Had a shot at the visitor, one hears! (7) |
| STABLE | Firm had a shot at taking on the French (6) |
| ESSAYED | Had a shot at cracking seed, say (7) |
| TRIED | Had a shot at shifting the dirt out of the way (5) |
| GUEST | Visitor had a shot at broadcast (5) |
| DRANK | Had a shot at Richmond's last position? (5) |
| BRAWN | From "flesh (for roasting)", a word for pressed potted meat; a boar; muscle; or, physical strength, as opposed to brain/intelligence (5) |
| FIRED | Having had a shot, got dismissed (5) |
| RUSSIANROULETTE | Game whose winner won't have had a shot (7,8) |
| BULLETINBOARD | Progress report had a shot in committee (8,5) |
| SPAT | One taking a turns at cooking? (4) |
| GRAHAME | Author who describes a riverbank picnic of "cold chicken, tongue, ham, beef, pickled gherkins, salad, French rolls, cress sandwiches, potted meat, ginger beer, lemonade and soda water" in his tale The |
