| CANNOLI | Ricotta-filled Italian pastry |
| RAVIOLI | Italian ricotta filled dish (7) |
| CNNL | Ricotta-filled dessert (7) |
| CHEESEBLINTZ | Ricotta-filled pancake often served on Shavuot |
| PASTAPRIMA | Veggie-filled Italian dish |
| PISA | ___ cake (easy Italian pastry) |
| ZEPPOLE | Italian pastry |
| BARI | Italian city or a ricotta type |
| CASSATA | Traditional Italian dessert of ice cream, whipped ricotta and fruit |
| COURGETTE | Summer squash often harvested in gluts whose flowers are served filled with ricotta as tempura and its flesh griddled, grated for fritters or spiralised for zoodles (9) |
| TORTELLI | From the Italian meaning "round loaves" or "small cakes, fritters", pasta parcels stuffed with ricotta, sage, spinach, squash and such like (8) |
| MANICOTTI | From the Italian for "little sleeves" or "muffs", pasta in the form of tubes, typically served stuffed with ricotta and baked in marinara sauce (9) |
| TRATTORIA | This restaurant'll advertise tasty tapenades, olives, ricotta - Italian antipasti - you'll want the starters! (9) |
| SOFFIONE | Italian word for dandelions, little cakes/puffs with sweet ricotta cream or for volcanic steam-holes (8) |
| RUBIOLS | Typical Mallorcan pastry shaped in a semi-circle and usually with a sweet filling of jam or ricotta cheese, though on special feast days they can have savoury fillings (7) |
| MALFATTI | Italian dish of spinach and ricotta gnocchi-like dumplings - "badly made" or "poorly formed", according to their name, but delicious nonetheless (8) |
| WHEY | Ricotta is made from it |
| FRUITCOCKTAIL | Dessert is ricotta, if luck holds out |
| RISE | Increase sides of ricotta cheese (4) |
| RIOTACT | Warning read about ricotta going off (4,3) |
