| PITHINESS | Slim tucked into pasties with seconds indicating quality of meat |
| MARKS | Numbers or letters Indicating quality (5) |
| CRIMPS | Pinched or fluted edges of pies or pasties; waves in wool fibres or made with tongs; or, soft beads squashed with pliers in jewellery-making (6) |
| SATURATE | Flood of pasties regularly supporting most of planet (8) |
| NEVERTHELESS | Eleven others played with seconds, with no duck yet (12) |
| YUCK | Don't bother with seconds of your cake, it's disgusting! |
| REVEALS | Shows meat -- about to go ahead with seconds (7) |
| SEABASS | Corps eating each starter for breakfast with seconds; there's no meat course |
| THIRTY | Two XVs in need of a drink with seconds to go |
| SLAPUP | Such a fine meal, with seconds, to consume with relish |
| CRUST | Word linking with "short" for a variety of pastry used for sweet and savoury dishes including pasties, treacle tarts, quiches, steak pies etc (5) |
| FORFAR | Scottish town once the centre of the ancient Kingdom of the Picts, where bridie pies/pasties are traditionally made (6) |
| CORNWALL | With a coastline including Land's End, a region with specialities including pasties, cream teas, yarg and stargazy pies (8) |
| WESTCOUNTRY | Region of England with local specialties including scones, Bath buns, clotted cream, Scrumpy cider, pasties, Cheddar cheese and stargazy pies (4,7) |
| PASTRY | Mixture of flour and shortening used as the basis of pasties, pies and patisserie such as palmiers (6) |
| ESCAPIST | I fantasise about tucking into freshly-made pasties |
| PIE | Baked dish-first of pasties, that is (3) |
| PASSE | It leaves pasties cooked but out of fashion (5) |
| INAPRETTYPASS | Ruined pasties: pantry faced with a tricky situation |
| SHORTCRUST | Variety of pastry used for pies, pasties, quiches, tarts and flans (10) |
