| DESERTER | Runaway has pudding with no small hesitation (8) |
| SHIV | Knife producing expression of fear with no little hesitation (4) |
| OSTRICH | Chorister with no little hesitation disturbed flightless bird (7) |
| ESCAPEE | Runaway has capes torn with ease (7) |
| EXCISE | Duty to get fit, displaying no little hesitation (6) |
| INNOCENT | Never charged in hotel with no small coin (8) |
| ACRIMONY | A bloody year, with no small ill-feeling (8) |
| TIRAMISU | Italian sponge pudding with mascarpone and marsala (8) |
| XTEDDICK | Pudding with currants * (8) |
| BAKEWELL | Town in the Derbyshire Dales noted for its speciality pastry pudding with an almond-flavoured filling and a layer of jam (8) |
| PANDOWDY | An American-style richly spiced deep-dish apple pudding with a baked crust, similar to a cobbler (8) |
| ETONMESS | Traditional pudding with crushed meringue (4,4) |
| PLUMDUFF | Flour pudding with raisins or currants (4,4) |
| ICECREAM | A somewhat oxymoronic name for a frozen-yet-soft scoopable dairy pudding with butterscotch, chocolate, pistachio, raspberry ripple, rum and raisin, strawberry or toffee pecan varieties served from a p |
| COBBLERS | Classic iced refreshers of sherry and citrus; cordwainers or souters, known collectively as a drunkship; deep-dish fruit pies or puddings with cake-, crumble-, dumpling- or scone-like toppings; or, no |
| SCRAM | Go away and yell with no small energy (5) |
| HOTAIR | Vapid talk from entertainer with no small appearance (3,3) |
| DURANCE | With no small measure, trial led to imprisonment, in the past (7) |
| PEPTALK | City big shot on track with no small encouragement (3,4) |
| COELACANTH | Possibly a lost chance with no small fish (10) |
