| SORREL | Lemon-flavoured herb, dock relative... in spices or relishes (6) |
| RUEFUL | Bitter herb dock packed makes you apologetic |
| SACHET | Cloth bag of lavender or potpourri as a pomander for a drawer; a small tied cheesecloth or muslin sack of herbs or spices; or, a miniature packet of salt, shampoo, sugar etc (6) |
| SEASON | Flavor to taste with spices or herbs (6) |
| CITRON | Tarte au - - -, French lemon-flavoured dessert (6) |
| BORAGE | A mildly cucumber-flavoured herb with azure, cerulean or sky-blue star-shaped flowers beloved by bumblebees and honey bees and used to garnish a claret/Pimm's cup (6) |
| FENNEL | Aniseed-flavoured herb with feathery leaves (6) |
| BLENDS | Mixtures of spices or coffee beans |
| COMFIT | With a Medieval recipe based on caraway, a sugar-coated or "panned" seed, spice or nut in the form of a sugared almond, aniseed ball or liquorice dragee (6) |
| CHIVES | Mild-flavoured herbs of onion genus (6) |
| MALICE | Figure one wrote in "spice" for "spite" (6) |
| TEAEGG | Asian snack steeped in spices |
| CLOVES | Aromatic dried flower buds crushed as one of the ingredients in mixed spice or French equivalent quatre epices; or, the segments forming a bulb of garlic (6) |
| NUTMEG | Seed used in spice (6) |
| SKATER | Curry was a good one ___ odd bits of tikka cooked in spice, extremely rich, served for starters (6) |
| PISCES | Zodiac sign spelled using only the letters in "spice" |
| LAPSUP | Relishes or delights in (4,2) |
| SAUCER | Relish (foremost of relishes) in small dish (6) |
| CHILLI | What hot-tasting capsicum pod is used in sauces, relishes and spice powders? (6) |
| FLAVOR | Add spice or zest |
