| OVENS | In these they cook a Victorian flower (5) |
| RINGS | My true love sent to me, on the fifth day of Christmas, five of these (they were golden) |
| THORNS | Caution: Roses smell lovely, but because of these, they don't always feel so good Parents |
| SAUTE | How they cook in their utility from South Australia (5) |
| LIARS | They cook up whoppers |
| TWIST | Don't stick a hero in a Victorian novel (5) |
| SHINE | Do exceptionally well in cutting a Victorian adventure novel (5) |
| STORM | A Victorian NRL club is known as the Melbourne ... (5) |
| LORNA | ___ Doone (cookie brand that shares its name with a character from a Victorian romance novel) |
| LORDS | House that has a Victorian pavilion |
| WEARE | Are Mon. Tues. Wed. as bad as a Victorian rebuke? (2,3,3,6) |
| BRELOQUE | A lovely gem of a French word for a fancy pendant in the form of a charm for a Victorian bracelet or an ornamental fob dangling from a watch chain (8) |
| BRAISE | How they cook in Serbia, perhaps (6) |
| FRYINGPANS | They cook Spooner's inquisitive supporters |
| PATISSERIES | They cook bread that's on order (11) |
| ROTISSERIES | They cook bread that's on order (11) |
| RUSKIN | Depicted in a painting by John Everett Millais and portrayed by Greg Wise in Effie Gray, a Victorian |
| CRINOLINE | Originally a stiff fabric of horsehair and linen, a Victorian fashion accessory in the form of a cage-like petticoat (9) |
| STREEP | Actress whose repertoire includes a devilish editor-in-chief, an iron PM, a suffragette, a Victorian woman of mystery and the world's worst "diva" (6) |
| TOTALABSTAINER | One pledged to add a scientific location to a Victorian composer (5,9) |
