| GLUTENFREE | Like the diet of people allergic to wheat |
| LEAN | Like the diet of Jack Sprat |
| BEAK | Word at Eton and Harrow for a schoolmaster; a rostrum shaped according to the diet of the bird to which it belongs; or, a projection at the prow of an ancient galley (4) |
| EDUSKUNTA | Unicameral parliament of Finland, established in 1906 to replace the Diet of Finland (9) |
| ANTS | Insects studied in myrmecology that constitute the majority of the diet of green woodpeckers (4) |
| BAMBOO | Constituting the diet of the giant panda, a tall woody grass and the world's fastest-growing land plant (6) |
| MARTINLUTHER | German leader of the Protestant Reformation excommunicated and outlawed by the Diet of Worms in 1521 |
| GLUTEN | Wheat protein that has to be eliminated from the diet of those suffering coeliac disease |
| PROTEIN | Essential part of the diet of a blue pointer? (7) |
| COLDHAM | Part of the diet of an indifferent actor? |
| SEATURTLES | The diet of indigenous Tampa Bay-area tribes included these creatures, still found in the bay today |
| KRILL | Small sea creatures which make up much of the diet of whales. (5) |
| SEEDS | Grains, kernels, pips, stones... embryonic plants constituting the diet of granivorous birds including goldfinches, turtledoves, wood pigeons and tree sparrows (5) |
| CORNERED | Got sole trading rights to wheat before the beginning of December |
| ONIONS | Vegetables that constituted the diet of tub-dweller Diogenes the Cynic (6) |
| DURUM | One beaten, has to turn to wheat (5) |
| VERMICELLI | Italian production for the Diet of Worms? (10) |
| HERESY | Luther's crime, per the Diet of Worms |
| CEPHALEXIN | Type of antibiotic often used to treat infections in patients allergic to penicillin |
| NUTS | Foodstuff that the Dales" Jacob Gallagher is allergic to (4) |
