| PEANUTS | Snack food, often roasted and salted |
| PEANUT | Snack, often roasted and salted |
| CASHEWNUT | Roasted and salted snack item (6,3) |
| REDPEPPERS | Veggies often roasted and canned |
| BACALAO | Spanish for a particular fish, but in culinary terms it refers to the dried and salted version which in Mallorca is often served with spinach and raisins, or local mushrooms (7) |
| PARSNIP | Root vegetable often roasted with potatoes or served with puy lentils and watercress or grated into remoulade (7) |
| SQUASH | A fruit cordial or presse; a close crowd; or, with cultivars including Angel Hair, Buttercup, Carnival, Crown Prince, Gold Nugget and Star, a type of pumpkin, often roasted or used for soup (6) |
| LAMB | Dish that's often roasted |
| PORKLOIN | Often-roasted cut of a pig |
| LOIN | Cut of pork often roasted |
| ALMOND | Nut-like kernel eaten roasted and smoked as a snack or ground in korma, romesco sauce or cakes containing lemon and polenta (6) |
| BACON | Meat from the back and sides of a pig, dried and salted (5) |
| EDAMAME | Japanese dish of young soy beans cooked in their pods and salted as a snack or appetiser (7) |
| PRETZEL | A baked, glazed and salted snack traditionally in the form of a knot (7) |
| HAM | Smoked and salted meat |
| KIMCHI | A Korean side dish of fermented and salted vegetables (6) |
| PLUM | Fruit that's sometimes dried and salted |
| KIPPER | Smoked and salted herring |
| CHESTNUT | Sung about by Nat King Cole, a kernel of a deciduous tree often roasted, used for chocolate truffle cake or candied for Marron glace (8) |
| NIBS | Writing points of fountain pens and quills; or, shelled, roasted and crushed coffee, cacao or cocoa beans (4) |
