| REVIEWER | Professional critic |
| TEATASTER | An Assam aficionado, Ceylon connoisseur, Earl Grey expert, matcha master or other professional critic, judge, sampler or tester of brewed, infused or steeped loose-leaf cha (3,6) |
| REVIEWERS | Professional critics |
| ATTACKER | Overly harsh critic rubbishes tart cake (8) |
| CRUMBLES | The critic finally discovers the puddings (8) |
| ARMCHAIR | This critic is no expert (8) |
| MULLIGAN | Jesse ..., media personality and restaurant critic (8) |
| NAYSAYER | Easy yarn about critic (8) |
| SHERIDAN | R B ___, author of stage plays The Rivals and The Critic (8) |
| PUFFBALL | The Critic at a dance is 1 (8) |
| ANAGRAMS | A constant critic runs into disordered collections of letters (8) |
| SUPEREGO | Return of classic work featuring film star Richard as a self-critic (8) |
| MALLARME | Stephane ---, 19th Century French symbolist poet and critic (8) |
| SHORTCUT | Yell about critic oddly getting the quicker route (8) |
| TELEMARK | Audible assessment of TV critic for a particular sort of turn (8) |
| BEERBOHM | Critic of broadcaster admitting resistance, a measure of it (8) |
| STRACHEY | Lytton ---, British writer and critic whose works include the biography Eminent Victorians (8) |
| GALACTIC | Full of stars, Rhode Island's avoided by festival critic (8) |
| SCHLEGEL | August von --, German Romanticist and critic who influenced Coleridge (8) |
| REYNOLDS | Gillian ___, English radio critic born in 1935 (8) |
