| CRADOCK | Nee Phyllis Nan Sortain Primrose Pechey, a flamboyant television chef who donned a ball-gown rather than an apron, popularised prawn cocktail and penned a number of novels, including her Castle Rising |
| AINSLEYHARRIOTT | Flamboyant television chef and presenter |
| FANNYCRADOCK | Phyllis Primrose-Pechey, TV chef and author (5,7) |
| CRINOLINE | Stiff material under a ball gown |
| DEB | Girl in a ball gown |
| EDDIEMURPHY | Comedian who donned many big costumes in "The Nutty Professor" |
| BILL | Skarsgard who donned clown makeup to play Pennywise in "It" |
| VALENTINE | Pseudonym of the lyricist and novelist Archibald Thomas Pechey, father of the TV cook Fanny Cradock |
| FLOYD | Keith ?, television chef who authored 2000 autobiography Out of the Frying Pan (5) |
| MURAT | Napoleon's brother-in-law who served as king of Naples 1808-15; a flamboyant cavalry leader shot following a failed attempt to regain his throne (5) |
| ROCOCO | From a French word denoting shell-covered pebble work ornamenting artificial grottoes, a term for a flamboyant style of architecture, decoration and furniture-making that emerged in Paris in the 1720s |
| TRIEDON | Donned a garment in a fitting room (5,2) |
| SINGLETON | One in a suit and one having donned a vest (9) |
| GLORIA | Screen legend who played a flamboyant faded star in Sunset Boulevard, ... Swanson |
| HOM | Ken ___, US television chef whose books include Travels with a Hot Wok (3) |
| NIGELLA | Celebrity TV chef (who crosses her sprouts!) - and a genus of summer-flowering annuals! (7) |
| STEIN | I've got a beer mug signed by Rick, the famous TV chef who has restaurants in Padstow (5) |
| DELIA | _ _ _ _ _ Smith, English TV chef who is a joint majority shareholder at Norwich City FC (5) |
| PANACHE | Criticise a guerrilla with a flamboyant manner (7) |
| SHIMMERY | Like a sequined ball gown |
