| CANDLEMAS | Light, spicy starter with mother on feast day (9) |
| MASS | Crowd with mother on ship (4) |
| XMAS | Kiss mother and son on feast day (4) |
| EASTEREGG | Gourmand, skipping starter, with urge for festive treat (6,3) |
| PEASOUPER | Starter with word of hesitation in the fog (3-6) |
| EYEOPENER | I mentioned starter with something enlightening |
| CARPACCIO | Fish and chips, cheeseburgers, including oyster starters with thin slices of fish (9) |
| DRAYHORSE | Duck starter with fish and a type of meat - you could pull a wagon if you had that (4,5) |
| PSYCHOSOMATIC | Imagined upset stomach with spicy starter of olives (13) |
| BHAJI | Sounds like one who has a lighter spicy starter (5) |
| BISQUE | Spicy starter replaced by second-rate soup (6) |
| SCURRIES | Runs caused by Indian foods after the spicy starter (8) |
| HAMBURGERS | Pork belly starter with egg on side is ultimate fast food (10) |
| MADEACLEANBREAK | Left, with no interest in coming back, for cooked up avocado starter with crisp batter (4,1,5,5) |
| TELE | Starter with gram or graph |
| SHIITAKE | Mushroom soup starter with fish, eating one before the other (8) |
| ULTERIOR | Province lacks self-starter with one alternative motive (8) |
| THAMES | Thai starter with pork quarters is a capital course (6) |
| BISTRO | Small restaurant covering Ramsay's starter with gravy (6) |
| ARSENAL | ... side of meat, but no starter, with side's sides inside (7) |
