| UNSOPHISTICATED | Simple duties can, when mixed with this absorbing work |
| HISTRIONIC | Like ham I repeatedly mixed with this corn |
| POPROCKS | Candy that, in urban legend, can be lethal when mixed with soda |
| COFFEE | From Arabic for "wine", a hot drink prepared from the beans, cherries or peaberries of a tropical shrub; a cup of this; or, its cafe au lait or mocha colour, when mixed with milk (6) |
| PLASTEROFPARIS | Gypsum which when mixed with water sets quickly (7,2,5) |
| RED | When mixed with blue, it makes purple |
| ANISETTE | Liqueur that turns cloudy when mixed with water |
| CEMENT | It hardens when mixed with water (6) |
| COMPLEMENTARYCOLOUR | Hue that forms white or black when mixed with another (13,6) |
| SPLITPEAS | It's apples when mixed with soup ingredients (5,4) |
| PAKISTAN | State of pasta when mixed with ink |
| MARTINI | Sienese painter Simone; a cocktail described as "dirty" when mixed with olive brine; or, Italian vermouth (7) |
| WEED | A scentless mignonette whose other name, dyer's rocket, refers to its yield of yellow dye; or, said natural pigment itself that, when mixed with blue woad, creates Lincoln green (4) |
| HEALTHINSURANCE | Take this out to cure anorexic? Sure can when ordered (6,9) |
| HOBGOBLIN | Imp hampering endlessly absorbing work |
| TOPIC | Brief moment absorbing work matter |
| PHILOSOPHER | Educated Polish woman's absorbing work for thinker (11) |
| MOPUP | Do some absorbing work (3,2) |
| SOPPY | Sentimental agent's absorbing work (5) |
| CHOPIN | Feature absorbing work for keyboard whizz |
