| BROTHER | Prepare thick soup, with some hesitation, for a close relative (7) |
| WALRUS | On reflection, looked around address for a close relative of SEAL (6) |
| CHOWDER | Thick soup with clams or fish (7) |
| OCTOBER | Company returning to the capital of Belgium with hesitation for a month (7) |
| TRAWLER | Search with hesitation for a boat (7) |
| ORBITER | Got an alternative piece, with little hesitation, for a spacecraft (7) |
| CHARTER | Reddened, say with hesitation, for a bit (7) |
| ZOOMING | Changing a camera focus for a close-up (7) |
| KEEPERS | Custodians of castle express hesitation for a second |
| UNCLEAR | A close relative has a right to be unpredictable (7) |
| TAUNTON | On time, a close relative was working at a town in England (7) |
| COTERIE | Recite about having love for a close association (7) |
| APRICOT | Which fruit is a close relative of the peach? (7) |
| STEPSON | Walks all over a close relative (7) |
| POTTAGE | Word, once synonymous with oatmeal porridge, for a thick soup or stew traditionally prepared from veg or herbs harvested from one's kitchen garden forage - from beans, beets and broccoli to bay leaves |
| POTAGER | Kitchen garden essentially grown to provide herbs/vegetables for the pan and the thick soup cooked in it (7) |
| GUMBOIL | Mouth complaint, being briefly sick after thick soup (7) |
| COTTAGE | Thick soup's a new starter in this country building |
| POTAGES | Thick soups are in pan longer than usual (7) |
| SQUASH | Word for a close crowd; a crushed mass; fruit cordial; a game named for one of its early rubber spheres that scrunched against a wall; a gourd; a social gathering; or, according to Shakespeare, an unr |
