| NOPICNIC | Notice cancelling barbecue meal? A tricky situation (2,6) |
| HOSPITAL | Where to get better meal? A tip, so helping some travelling around |
| SPARERIB | Part of a barbecue meal |
| STEAK | Southern wood used on the barbecue meal (15) |
| RIBS | Messy barbecue meal |
| DELICACY | Diplomatic finesse in a tricky situation is a treat (8) |
| LOOPHOLE | A way of escape from a tricky situation (8) |
| ADMONISH | A meal a day's included, correct? (8) |
| DEADLINE | Lead away in to have a meal a by which time it should be ready! (8) |
| QUAGMIRE | Company meeting gets into papers -- a tricky situation (8) |
| TICKLISH | Liable to involuntary laughter in such a tricky situation (8) |
| LOGTABLE | For outdoor meal, a calculating aid (3,5) |
| BUNFIGHT | Spooner's Happy Meal's a riot (3,5) |
| SHAMEFUL | Butcher due fish meal, a deplorable notion (8,4) |
| AUDACITY | "I have the ___ to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits." -Martin Lut |
| SQUARE | A regular quadrilateral; a quartile aspect; the figurative "shape" of a full, balanced meal; a mortarboard; a carpenter's measure; or, one of a chessboard's black/white spaces (6) |
| PICNIC | Word, roughly translating as "peck or nibble at a meal" or "a trifle to eat", for an alfresco meal, a packed lunch or a shared feast in the country (6) |
| NOSEBAG | A pouch for a picnicker's meal; a canvas haversack of fodder placed around a horse's muzzle so that said steed may feed from it; or, food, grub or sustenance generally (7) |
| ENTREE | French word based on the simple idea of a "way in", whether access to high society, admittance to a place such as an inn, the introduction to the heart of the meal, a musical prelude or a curtain-rais |
| ORT | A morsel left at a meal; a fragment, scrap |
