| HUMBUGS | Hard-boiled striped peppermint sweets (7) |
| HUMBUG | Striped peppermint sweet (6) |
| PANDROPS | Peppermint sweets (Scots) |
| CANDYCANE | Striped peppermint treat (5,4) |
| PANDROP | (Scottish) Hard smooth peppermint sweet e.g. mint imperial (7) |
| BULLSEYE | 'Nonsense', I said, grabbing second, hard peppermint sweet (5,3) |
| MOISTER | Bloke wants to eat egg less hard-boiled? (7) |
| GUMDROP | Hard-boiled lolly (7) |
| NOIRISH | Hard-boiled spuds, essentially exchanged for one in feed (7) |
| MINT | A peppermint sweet (4) |
| NICOISE | Salade -; hard-boiled eggs, French beans, tuna, anchovies, black olives etc (7) |
| TARTARE | --- sauce is composed of mayonnaise mixed with hard-boiled egg yolks, chopped herbs, capers and gherkins (7) |
| EGGCOSY | It muffles the possibly hard-boiled cup entrant (3,4) |
| CYNICAL | Hard-boiled egg's first dropped in clean, icy liquid |
| GUMSHOE | Protagonist in hard-boiled fiction |
| DEVILED | like filled, hard-boiled egg |
| TEAEGGS | Hard-boiled Chinese snacks |
| EGGCUPS | To hold those hard-boiled types? (3,4) |
| EGGHEAD | Intellectual, possibly hard boiled leader |
| THEPITS | Nothing's worse for starters than hard-boiled eggs plonked in tartare sauce |
