| NOPICNIC | Notice cancelling barbecue meal? A tricky situation (2,6) |
| HOSPITAL | Where to get better meal? A tip, so helping some travelling around |
| STEAK | Southern wood used on the barbecue meal (15) |
| RIBS | Messy barbecue meal |
| ADMONISH | A meal a day's included, correct? (8) |
| DELICACY | Diplomatic finesse in a tricky situation is a treat (8) |
| LOOPHOLE | A way of escape from a tricky situation (8) |
| DEADLINE | Lead away in to have a meal a by which time it should be ready! (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) |
| QUAGMIRE | Company meeting gets into papers -- a tricky situation (8) |
| 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) |
| FEED | Fodder/forage; a plentiful meal; a tool's rate of progress; or, a stooge (4) |
| BARIUM | ___ meal, a mixture containing a white compound opaque to X-rays (6) |
| HOTSEAT | A position of responsibility in a tricky situation (3,4) |
| MIDINETTE | Roughly meaning "light noon meal", a historical modiste or assistant in a Parisian couture house, named for their short break taken at lunchtime (9) |
| DOGSDINNER | Fido's meal's a mess (4,6) |
