| SAVOURY | Salty or spicy rather than sweet (7) |
| SAVORY | Salty or spicy rather than sweet |
| PICKLES | Salty or acid liquids, often seasoned or spiced, in which food, especially vegetables and fruit, is preserved (7) |
| OFFCOLOR | Salty or spicy |
| ANGELIC | More than sweet |
| SEMIDRY | Like wines with less residual sugar than sweet wines |
| PUMPKIN | Fruit known as the king of the vegetable patch, related to squashes, cucumbers, watermelons and courgettes, versatile in cookery as it can be served in sweet, savoury or spicy dishes (7) |
| UMAMI | Description of a flavour other than sweet, sour, bitter or salty (5) |
| NUTMEG | A cheeky or "spicy" football trick or move; or, a spice used to flavour brown shrimp, custard tarts or other food (6) |
| RACY | Salty or spicy (but not actually food-related) |
| TASTE | Salty or sweet, for example |
| YAMS | They're sweeter than sweet potatoes |
| GOBSTOPPER | Grand Russian river's more superior than sweet (10) |
| SALSA | Spicy dance, or spicy sauce! (5) |
| SALINE | What is another term for salty or saltlike (6) |
| BRACKISH | Water that is slightly salty or stale (8) |
| HOT | A word used to mean attractive, currently popular or in demand, highly radioactive, recently stolen, skilful or spicy (3) |
| MASALA | A mixture of spices used in Indian cookery; a dish flavoured with such an aromatic blend; or, a Hinglish word meaning "dramatic" or "spicy" (6) |
| CAJUN | Of folk music (or spicy cuisine) from southern Louisiana (5) |
| SALMI | Stew or spicy sausage? Second answer withdrawn |
