| CRUDITES | Sliced vegetables appeal, served in natural oils |
| EARTHY | Natural oils, perhaps, bottled in what year? |
| JULIENNE | A soup made of various thinly sliced vegetables cooked in broth (8) |
| LAYERS | Strata; coatings; items of clothing worn under or over others; or, thicknesses of something such as sliced vegetables in a dish (6) |
| MENTHOL | Camphor-like crystalline compound occurring in peppermint and other natural oils, used as a flavouring, decongestant, analgesic etc. (7) |
| PASSLAW | Issue edict while assistants get sliced vegetables |
| CITRONELLA | A fragrant natural oil used in perfume and soap manufacture (10) |
| OKRA | Cook raw sliced vegetable (4) |
| RIGS | Installations used in drilling for and exploiting natural oil and gas deposits (4) |
| RIG | Installation used in drilling for and exploiting natural oil and gas deposits (3) |
| OILWELLS | Providers of natural oil |
| SPERMACETI | Engineer empties car of natural oil product (10) |
| SEBUM | Oppose bumper delivery of natural oil (5) |
| ANATOLIA | A natural oil being refined near a part of Turkey (8) |
| TURNANICEDOLLAR | Traded natural oil, raced to make good profit (4,1,4,6) |
| TRITIUM | Radioactive isotope of hydrogen, occurring in trace amounts in natural hydrogen and produced in a nuclear reactor |
| EARTHTONE | Performing in theatre set out in natural shade (5,4) |
| DARWINIST | Oddly it draws in a believer in natural selection |
| OLEIC | Pertaining to a monounsaturated fatty acid found in natural fats and oils |
| LAPISLAZULI | One's left trapped in a capital city with oddly built-in natural rock (5-6) |
