| SPICER | One using cloves or garlic |
| PRESS | Apple or grape crusher; a utensil to mince garlic cloves; or, a clamped device used to preserve flowers and foliage (5) |
| SEGMENTS | Internal divisions of citrus fruits similar to garlic cloves; or, the general term for individual ro |
| SPICE | Ingredient such as cinnamon, cloves or nutmeg used for flavouring mulled wine, glegg, mincemeat, festive lattes or lebkuchen (5) |
| ONION | Vegetable with concentric layers, often pickled, studded with cloves or used to make bhajis or a traditional French soup (5) |
| PASTILLES | Old "little loaves", today's lozenges medicated with anise, liquorice, menthol or oil of cloves; or, Rowntree's sugary gumdrops flavoured with fruits of the groves (9) |
| CLOVE | A segment of a bulb or garlic; or, the dried flower bud of a tree related to myrtle used as a traditional painkiller for toothache, or to flavour masala chai, biryani or mulled wine (5) |
| PAPERY | Like onion or garlic skin |
| ATE | Had some goiabada or garlic bread |
| NAAN | Bread served with topping of butter, cheese or garlic |
| BULB | Onion or garlic |
| ALLIUMS | Onions, leeks or garlic (7) |
| UTENSIL | Kitchen tool such as a mandoline, lemon squeezer or garlic press (7) |
| PREGO | Pasta sauce brand with a no onions or garlic Sensitive Recipe variety |
| CHICAGO | Third most populous city in the US, thought to be named from an Algonquian word for 'onion' or 'garlic' (7) |
| PESTO | Basil-based sauce (though you can also use peas or garlic scapes) |
| SPICED | Description of curry, roasted nuts or Bombay mix flavoured with masala, or of mulled wine, rum or chai with cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg (6) |
| PEEL | Candied for mincemeat or Christmas cakes, the zest of a lemon or the fruit sometimes studded with cloves for a seasonal pomander (4) |
| CHAI | Milky sweetened black tea infused with a karha of cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, fennel seeds, ginger, peppercorns or other spices; or, a general name for tea in India (4) |
| BISHOP | A senior prelate of an episcopate or "the purple"; or, port/wine mulled with bitter oranges, cloves and spices (6) |
