| BELCANTO | Meaning "beautiful country" in Italian, a creamy cheese from Lombardy (3,5) |
| BELPAESE | Meaning "beautiful country" in Italian, a creamy cheese from Lombardy (3,5) |
| BEL | (& 23-down) Soft cheese meaning 'beautiful country' in Italian (3,5) |
| ALFREDO | Served with a creamy cheese sauce |
| GOAT | Source of a creamy cheese |
| BLOODYMARY | Drink from Lombardy you almost ordered (6,4) |
| MENOTTI | Composer from Lombardy |
| ROMANTIC | Being sentimental gives old Italian a twitch (8) |
| VACHERIN | From the French for "cow", a spruce-bound French or Swiss soft creamy cheese whose name is given to a pavlova-like pudding (8) |
| CAVOLONERO | Literally meaning "black kale" in Italian, a leafy green vegetable used in Tuscan recipes such as ri |
| PALLA | A Roman woman's cloak/mantle; or, meaning "ball" in Italian, a Tuscan game played with such an orb (5) |
| MUENSTER | Creamy cheese |
| ASSAI | "Very' in Italian, a term used in music |
| CAMEMBERT | Rich soft creamy cheese from France (9) |
| BRIE | Soft creamy cheese from the north of France |
| LATTICINO | "Dairy produce" in Italian, a name for white glass used in threads to decorate clear glass |
| GELATO | Literally 'frozen' in Italian, a type of whipped ice cream flavoured with fruit or nuts |
| SENTIMENTALIST | Romantic sent people, in Italian, a record (14) |
| OLATHE | Fourth largest city in Kansas, US, whose name derives from a Shawnee word meaning beautiful |
| BEAUMONDE | From the French meaning "beautiful world", a phrase used to describe the "bon ton"; or, a variety of |
