| DIPPERS | Ladles; snacks such as goujons for dunking in a sauce; water ouzels, the world's only aquatic songbirds; or, assistants historically employed to help bathers in and out of the sea |
| NIBBLES | Savoury snacks such as olives, roasted almonds, crisps, dips, grissini, crudities etc served with dr |
| NACHO | A small snack such as a chip with savoury topping (5) |
| CHAAT | Street snack such as pani puri |
| RICHTEA | Plain biscuit for dunking in a cuppa |
| DIPPER | Nickname for a Baptist; metal cup clipped onto a painter's palette for holding medium; or, a water ouzel (6) |
| GINGERSNAP | Biscuit for dunking in spirit twice? (6,4) |
| LOVAT | Rising in the Chiltern Hills, another name for the River Ouzel; or, a muted green colour used for Scottish tweed, moleskins, kilt socks and country knits (5) |
| PANGOLIN | Depicted in a collection by Patrick Mavros, the world's only scaly mammal and most hunted animal in existence (8) |
| BLACKBIRD | An ouzel or merle esteemed for its mellow song; or, the title of a 1968 song by the "Fab Four" (9) |
| CUTTY | - Sark; named after a character in the poem Tam O'Shanter by Robert Burns, the world's only surviving tea clipper (5) |
| SEAHORSE | Known collectively as a herd, the monogamous marine fish Hippocampus which is one of the world's only species to experience true male pregnancy (8) |
| SINGLELEAF | The California nut pine (Pinus monophylla) is also known as the ___-___ pilyon (it is also the world's only one-needed pine) (6-4) |
| DRINKING | Dunking in for Tina at the watering place (8,8) |
| FOUNTAIN | Dunking in for Tina at the watering place (8,8) |
| MERLOT | From French patois for "little blackbird", a Bordeaux grape variety, named for its resemblance to the blue-black colour of said ouzel (6) |
| MADAGASCAR | Island off the coast of Mozambique that is home to the world's only lemur population |
| AFRICA | Continent containing Kilimanjaro, the Zambezi and the world's only two countries beginning with 'Z' (6) |
| NEPAL | Republic of S Asia that was the world's only Hindu kingdom until its monarchy was abolished in 2008 (5) |
| MEXICO | Until 2017, which country was the unlikely home to the world's only Cornish pasty museum? (6) |
