| BECHEDEMER | Sea cucumber or trepang, eaten as a soup mainly in China |
| PARTANBREE | Seafood soup, mainly crab, eaten mostly in NE Scotland (6,4) |
| GREENTEA | Hot drink produced mainly in China and Japan (5,3) |
| WALLY | Dialect for a pickled cucumber or gherkin; a mild insult meaning "fool"; or, a bespectacled figure wearing a red-and-white stripy jumper, hidden in a series of picture puzzles (5) |
| TREPANG | Large sea cucumber also known as beche-demer, eaten as a delicacy in China (7) |
| OKRA | A tall annual herb used as a soup ingredient |
| PEPO | Botanical description of a fleshy cucurbitaceous fruit or berry with a hard rind such as a watermelon, pumpkin, cucumber or squash (4) |
| BOULE | French type of bread that occasionally doubles as a soup bowl |
| CROUTON | Throwing corn out as a soup ingredient |
| LOGIN | Remove fat from, as a soup |
| DEGREASE | Remove fat from, as a soup |
| STIR | Tend to, as a soup |
| STIRS | Mixes, as a soup |
| GHERKIN | A miniature pickled cucumber or a large cornichon, to whose shape a London skyscraper is compared (7) |
| VEGETABLE | Word that derives from "animated, enliven, excite", yet is used to describe an inanimate object in the form of a cabbage, carrot, cauliflower, courgette, cucumber or other edible part of a plant (9) |
| BEARN | Type of fruit such as an avocado, banana, cucumber or tomato (5) |
| PHALLIC | Like cucumber or a banana, maybe |
| VEG | Cucumber or carrot to a Brit |
| FEEDER | Starfish or sea cucumber, e.g. |
| ECHINODERM | Any of the marine invertebrate animals in the phylum that includes starfish, sea urchins and sea cucumbers |
