| RAMEN | Japanese food: a little clementine marked 'From the East' (5) |
| RULED | "Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be Aristotle (5) |
| TESTER | Historical cupbearer who tested the innocuousness of a monarch's food; a little silver sommelier cup for trying wine; or, a small sample of cheese (6) |
| SASHIMI | Japanese food, a sham I suspect in southern island (7) |
| BATTLESCARRED | Marked from combat (6-7) |
| SNACK | Little food - a quarter the content of the bag (5) |
| TANGO | Codeword following Sierra; a sultry dance of seduction, originally of despair; or, alluding to a clementine-like fruit, a deep shade of orange (5) |
| MINER | "In a cavern in a canyon; Excavating for a mine; Lived a ..., forty-niner; And his daughter, Clementine" |
| SCOFF | Word, from "quarter of a day", hence "meal", for food; a greedy gobble, gulp or guzzle of said grub; or, a gibe (5) |
| TRIPE | Part of the stomach of a ruminant prepared as food; a popular tapas item in Spain, often cooked with chickpeas and chorizo, it is frequently included in the Mallorcan variat tapas selection (5) |
| CYCLE | Fancy Clementine will get on a bike (5) |
| AMINE | "Oh My Darling, Clementine" part: "In a cavern, in a canyon, excavating for _ ___..." |
| SCRAP | A morsel of leftover food; a newspaper cutting; a remnant; or, metal/waste for recycling/reusing (5) |
| CREAM | Dairy food; a neutral colour; or, a former rock band led by Eric Clapton (5) |
| SALAD | Food a large number unfortunately sent back (5) |
| KEBAB | Food a blockhead gets to bake badly (5) |
| FONDA | Wyatt Earp's portrayer in "My Darling Clementine" |
| NINER | "...miner, forty-___, and his daughter Clementine..." |
| WATER | Cows drink about a bathtub full of ___ and eat around 18kgs of food a day. |
| GLAZE | Edible coating of gelatin, sugar, egg, etc. that gives food a smooth glossy surface (5) |
