| MELBATOAST | Spice a drink to accompany cheese with this? (5,5) |
| BATHOLIVER | Cracker to accompany cheese (4,6) |
| WHINE | Beef and drink to accompany it, you say? (5) |
| HALE | Healthy drink to accompany healthy starter |
| SAKE | Drink to accompany sushi (4) |
| POTPOURRI | Word originally for a Spanish stew that is used to describe a fragrant mixture of dried petals and spices, a medley of tunes or a hotchpotch or miscellany (9) |
| MACE | A spice, a bludgeon or a type of tear gas? (4) |
| GINGER | A spice; a Spice |
| NEE | Posh Spice a.k.a. Victoria Beckham, ___ Victoria Adams |
| CLOVE | A spice; a garlic bulb |
| CARDAMOM | Oriental spice; a mad corm (anagram) |
| AROMA | Derived from the Greek meaning "spice", a pleasant fragrance (5) |
| VANILLA | Exotic spice a type of Ice? (7) |
| CONDIMENT | From Latin for "pickle, preserve, spice", a word for ketchup, mustard pepper, relish, salt or other seasoning for enhancing the flavour of food (9) |
| NUTMEG | Woody spice - prized item - cask sent up (6) |
| AMONTILLADO | A drink to have a day, up to the time of a party |
| SEASONING | Herbs and spices - a sign one's cooking (9) |
| TOAST | Derived from a custom of adding a piece of browned spiced bread to ale or wine, a drink to someone's health or honour marked by the raising of one's glass (5) |
| SOFT | Like a retriever's mouth, ideally, with a drink to follow (4) |
| DRAMA | Plays in general with a drink to begin with (5) |
