| ENTREMETS | Light dish served between two courses of a formal meal (9) |
| ENTREE | French word for a dish served between the main courses of a formal dinner, or according to Mrs Beeton, a side dish served with the first course (6) |
| MORALDILEMMA | A situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two courses of action (5,7) |
| ANTIPASTI | Hors d'oeuvres served as the traditional first course of a formal Italian meal (9) |
| ORDESSERT | A restaurant two-course special consists of main course and either entree .. ....... (2,7) |
| HIGHTABLE | Place at a formal meal where the most important guests sit (4,5) |
| COURSE | One of the successive dishes of a formal meal; or, the ground over which golf is played or a race is run (6) |
| BUFFET | A blow to one's hopes of a formal meal? |
| FANTASTIC | Served between cool temperature and cold, sparkling wine's superb |
| WINEGLASS | Part of a formal table setting |
| PRIMO | First course of a formal Italian meal following antipasti; or, the leading or principal part in a duet (5) |
| PUDDINGPIE | Old-fashioned name, evocative of a double dessert or two courses in one, of a savoury meat-filled suet-dough crust, baked until done (7-3) |
| SPLIT | Largest coastal city in Croatia; a strip of wood used in basketry; or, a pudding consisting of ice cream served between a banana cut lengthwise (5) |
| QED | Abbreviation of a Latin phrase for "which was to be demonstrated or proved", used at the end of a formal proof and as the title of a former BBC science documentary series (1,1,1) |
| COQAUVIN | Mint carrying starter of quality, a kind of light dish (3,2,3) |
| LUNCHEON | Sort of meat for a formal meal (8) |
| THEOREM | A statement or formula that can be deduced from the axioms of a formal system by means of its rules of inference (7) |
| PATHWAYS | Why pasta dish offers two courses perhaps (8) |
| PATHWAY | Two courses used for another of the same (7) |
| TEMPEST | Whip up a storm to entice around two courses (7) |
