| CODLIVEROIL | Jamie coats dinner starter in turn as pick-me-up (3-5,3) |
| VITAMINPILL | VIP, unwell, eats a mint designed as pick-me-up (7,4) |
| TIRAMISU | Italian dessert whose name translates in English as 'pick me up' (8) |
| NASTURTIUMS | Plants possibly turn as one in rising filth (11) |
| WUNDERKIND | Where Mozart's works might be filed in turn, as child prodigy (10) |
| RECUSANT | Dissenter of Church rising in turn as converted (8) |
| REPEL | Parking in turn, as you drive off (5) |
| EXOTIC | Refer to the animal, in turn, as "foreign" (6) |
| LEGISLATED | Let details, e.g., in turn, as decreed (10) |
| SALAD | It's a toss up: Your pet rabbit would probably enjoy this leafy dinner starter just as much as you do |
| CAD | No gentleman can fail to finish dinner starter (3) |
| ETERNAL | Endless dinner: starter cleared, bird brought in |
| ASPIC | Jelly entered as pick of the bunch (5) |
| EVOKED | Brought to mind the night before, eating fine dinner starter (6) |
| SOUP | Dinner starter |
| DACE | Dinner's starter, wonderful fish (4) |
| TODO | Fuss excessively about dinner's starter |
| LOCKIN | Commit to, as picks for a March Madness bracket |
| SAMEHERE | In doing a turn as before, it's boring me too (4,4) |
| HUGHGRANT | British actor who impressed with a star turn as a villain in Paddington 2, and is now back on the small screen in The Undoing, opposite Nicole Kidman (4,5) |
