| INAGROVE | Short story by Ryunosuke Akutagawa used by Akira Kurosawa as the basis of his movie Rashomon |
| SUFFERINSOCKOTASH | House cat's favorite expression? (coined by one of his movie-star buddies) |
| DARWIN | Naturalist whose findings collected on his five-year Beagle voyage formed the basis of his theory of evolution by natural selection (6) |
| EPSTEIN | 3-D forms the basis of his works (7) |
| MELVILLE | Author whose first-hand experiences on a whaling ship formed the basis of his novels including Moby-Dick and Omoo (8) |
| CAT | Any one of the felines depicted in a poem by T. S. Eliot that serves as the basis of a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber (3) |
| THERM | Unit of heat used in the UK as the basis of gas bills (5) |
| CERAMIC | Material such as clay hardened by heat, used as the basis of china, porcelain or earthenware (7) |
| PASTRY | Mixture of flour and shortening used as the basis of pasties, pies and patisserie such as palmiers (6) |
| IAMA | 1951 play by John Van Druten used as the basis of the film Cabaret (1,2,1,6) |
| CAMERA | 1951 play by John Van Druten used as the basis of the film Cabaret (1,2,1,6) |
| ANCHOVY | Tiny fish often preserved in salt or oil - the Romans used them as the basis of their ubiquitous sau |
| GARNI | Bouquet -; bundle of herbs used as the basis of Provencal cookery (5) |
| SOY | Type of bean used as the basis of high-protein foods (3) |
| ESPRESSO | Coffee served in shots or used as the basis of cappuccino; or, the method/machine for making this (8) |
| BATTER | Flour, egg and milk mixture used as the basis of Yorkshire puddings, pancakes, crepes, toad-in-the-hole and coating for fish fillets (6) |
| GENOISE | An Italian version of a chiffon or sponge, served as a cake in its own right or as the basis of a lady's finger, madeleine or mokatine (7) |
| ROUX | Cooked mixture of flour and butter as the basis of a sauce (4) |
| ODDS | Ratio used as the basis of a bet (4) |
| DOUGH | Malleable mixture of flour and water as the basis of beignets, bread, crackers, dumplings, noodles, pasta, pastry, pie crusts and pizzas (5) |
