| ICESHEET | It's full of grated cheese that's melting fast (3,5) |
| AUGRATIN | Of food, oven-cooked with a coating of grated cheese and usually breadcrumbs (2,6) |
| ANCHORED | Once hard, melting fast |
| EPIC | Clutching a soft ice that's melting, in the story (4) |
| SEAICE | Habitat for polar bears that's melting |
| PARMESAN | A 2002 European Court of Justice ruling protecting what cheese caused other makers to change the name of their grated cheese? (8) |
| MILANESE | In a sauce of tomatoes, mushrooms, shredded meat, truffles, and grated cheese |
| GRATINEE | Cooked covered in grated cheese or breadcrumbs |
| PECORINO | Cheese that's grated on pasta |
| ROSTI | Fried patty of grated potato that, as its Swiss German name indicates, is cooked until "crisp and golden" (5) |
| LATKE | It's made of grated potato |
| RAPPIEPIE | Acadian dish of grated potatoes: 2 wds. |
| ROESTI | Swiss dish of grated potatoes shaped into a flat cake and fried (6) |
| FAJITA | Tortilla with filling of strips of meat and grated cheese |
| BESEECH | Ask fervently for grated cheese on top of beans (7) |
| MOUSETRAP | Grilled snack of bread spread with butter, marmite and grated cheese topping (9) |
| GRATIN | Dish covered with grated cheese |
| GNOCCHI | Dumplings, often served with sauce or grated cheese (7) |
| CARBONARA | A pasta sauce typically made with cured pork, egg and grated cheese (9) |
| CHEDDAR | He'd written in the card "grated cheese" (7) |
