| RENNIN | Milk- curdling enzyme occurring in the gastric juice of young ruminant mammals and widely used in the production of cheese; also called chymosin (6) |
| GARLIC | Strong-smelling plant used to flavour many dishes, a major crop in Spain and widely used in Mallorca where it is cultivated and grows wild (6) |
| RENNET | Product from the membrane lining the fourth stomach (abomasum) of calves and other young ruminants, used in cheese production (6) |
| ZYMASE | Enzyme occurring naturally in yeasts |
| OYSTER | A variety of bivalve mollusk attached to objects at the bottom of the sea and widely used as food |
| HEEL | The back part of the human foot, which corresponds to the point of the hock of hoofed mammals and those that walk on their toes (4) |
| MURASAKISHIKIBU | Japanese novelist, poet, and lady-in-waiting from the Heian period who penned one of the most influential and widely read Japanese classical works: The Tale of Genji. |
| RETICULUM | Second of the four compartments of a ruminant mammal's stomach, located between the rumen and the omasum (9) |
| UREA | Nitrogenous compound found in the urine of mammals and synthetically produced to use in making plastics, fertilizers, etc. |
| FREMANTLE | Western Australian city at the mouth of the Swan River - where the America's Cup was contested in th |
| UNWIELDY | Awkward but lots of fun and widely used (8) |
| PAUNCH | Alternative name for the rumen, the first and largest compartment of a ruminant mammal's stomach (6) |
| TOTARA | Native tree whose red. straight-grained timber is extremely durable and widely used (6) |
| SALEM | Arthur Millers 1953 play, The Crucible, took a swipe at McCarthyism by way of the witch trials in th |
| SOYABEAN | Legume of the pea family, rich in protein and widely eaten (4,4) |
| QUINOA | Plant in the amaranth family, native to the Andes and widely cultivated (6) |
| MANDIBLE | A bone of the lower jaw in mammals and other vertebrates (8) |
| KIKUYU | Creeping grass native to east Africa and widely used for lawns (6) |
| STANDARD | Regularly and widely used (8) |
| OMASUM | Third compartment of a ruminant mammal's stomach, also known as the psalterium and manyplies (6) |
