| ROCKETSCIENTIST | NASA boffin's salad is nicest mixed with thyme primarily (6,9) |
| SCIENTIST | Hawking, perhaps, is nicest organised before ornithologist's back (9) |
| TIPOFTHEICEBERG | The smallest head of salad is the least of your troubles (3,2,3,7) |
| TRYOUT | Experiment with fish stuffed with thyme in the middle |
| RICOTTA | Soft, unsalted Italian food used for cheesecake, cannelloni with spinach or baked with thyme for rustic bread (7) |
| MISCELLANY | Salad is served with container of honey in heaps |
| ENERGISE | Green salad is primarily eaten to invigorate (8) |
| ANCHOVY | Salty fish used to flavour pissaladiere with thyme and black olives (7) |
| DOTE | Be excessively fond of rabbit stuffed with thyme, we hear (4) |
| CHARYBDIS | Monster crab dish prepared with thyme in the middle |
| AWOKEN | Stirred a pan with thyme and cumin at the bottom (6) |
| SAGEWISDOM | "Pair it with thyme or rosemary," e.g. |
| COBB | Restaurateur Bob for whom a salad is named |
| TABOULI | Middle Eastern salad is said to be taboo, Lee (7) |
| DISPUTING | Questioning when salad is put in green boxes |
| RADISH | Part of salad is hard to shred (6) |
| EVIDENCE | Proof endive salad is cold and gives energy (8) |
| NUISANCE | New sauce in salad is cause of annoyance (8) |
| ALAS | Sadly, salad is rejected, after removing out a bit of dressing (4) |
| UNDRESSED | Without vinaigrette, salad is naked (9) |
