| TRICOLOR | Pasta seen in party salads |
| TYPO | Character flaw seen in party politics |
| BRASH | Flashy Rex seen in party (5) |
| ART | Skill seen in party piece (3) |
| GAME | European politician seen in party occasion: note the strategy (4,4) |
| ORZO | Pasta in soups and salads |
| MACARONI | Pasta in some salads |
| AZUKI | One of the spellings of a reddishbrown pulse used in stews, salads, desserts and dim sum fillings, regarded as the king of beans in Japan (5) |
| ENDIVE | Also known as escarole, a Mediterranean leaf vegetable eaten braised, raw in salads or cooked in omelettes or gratin (6) |
| ARTICHOKE | Jerusalem -; tuber of a plant in the sunflower family, eaten as a vegetable in risottos, soups, gratins and warm salads (9) |
| SEPALS | Attracting pollinators, dried in bath salts, served in salads, distilled for perfume or pressed for handmade cards, flower parts forming corollas collectively (6) |
| ENDIVES | Plants related to chicory, used in salads (7) |
| JICAMA | Starchy root used in salads |
| RADISH | Pungent fleshy edible root eaten in salads (6) |
| BEETROOT | Vegetable cooked or used in salads and pickles (8) |
| RAMPION | Wild plant used in salads (7) |
| SPRINGONION | Bulb with leaves eaten in salads (6,5) |
| CRESS | Plant used in salads (5) |
| KALE | Curly green found in many salads |
| CELERY | Eurasian plant whose leafstalks are used in salads (6) |
