| BHAGAVADGITA | Mahabharata's essence and grand song, ultimately blended with advaita! (8,4) |
| ACHARYA | Guru's cautious going into entrance of Advaita Academy (7) |
| NURSERYRHYME | Henry's rum blended with rye as bedtime sedative? (7,5) |
| SYNTHESISERS | They blended with sirens in ship's audio equipment (12) |
| NEWCALEDONIA | Archipelago in the Pacific Ocean which includes the Chesterfield Islands and Grand Terre (3,9) |
| DASHINGWHITE | 9/5 16d 8d Gin cocktail neds drop of mixer first, blended with green teas? (7,5,8) |
| HUNGARIAN | Put up with song ultimately written like Bartók |
| TURKISHDELIGHT | Icing sugar-dusted jelly-like confection or sweetmeat flavoured variously with attar, bergamot, lemon, mint, orange-flower water or other flower essence and known in its native country as lokum (7,7) |
| GRENADA | A country song ultimately about nothing (7) |
| OVID | Poet showing love's essence and personality (4) |
| GIST | Essence ... and, read differently, a hint to six puzzle answers |
| TEMS | Singer featured on 2020's "Essence" and 2022's "Wait for U" |
| SALMAGUNDY | Special Italian essence and Scottish toffee mixture |
| DIRGE | Grave-burying song, ultimately (5) |
| ASTITCHINTIME | What man in essence and woman in effect both have proverbially to solve the problem immediately? (1,6,2,4) |
| MINSTREL | One who performs songs, ultimately taken in by sweet relative (8) |
| ROUILLE | Provencal sauce of garlic, chillies and breadcrumbs blended with olive oil, traditionally served wit |
| LOIRE | In France, water blended with oil with some care (5) |
| CALCIUM | Element Liam blended with copper and carbon (7) |
| ICINGSUGAR | Ingredient blended with egg whites and glycerine to decorate a Christmas cake (5,5) |
