| DROPSCONE | Spongy cake also known as a Scotch pancake |
| SUSHI | Japanese rice cake also made with raw fish |
| YULELOG | Cake also called buche de Noel |
| HOP | A spring on one foot over a scotch, a twig or prior to a skip and a jump (3) |
| DROP | --- scone, a flat spongy cake made by dripping a spoonful of batter onto a hot griddle (4) |
| GRIDDLE | Iron plate for cooking drop scones or Scotch pancakes; or, a pan with ridges for charring foods such as sliced courgettes, halloumi or flatbread (7) |
| GIRDLE | A ceinture, cincture, cingulum, elastic corset or sash; anything that encircles, like one such waistbelt; or, dialect for a bakestone/iron plate, for drop scones or Scotch pancakes (6) |
| SHORTCOMING | Having a Scotch, perhaps, en route's a weakness |
| RETAPE | Seal again, as with a Scotch product |
| TENYEAR | Description for a reunion or a Scotch |
| BABKA | Spongy cake laced with rum |
| MUFFIN | Spongy cake/bread roll (6) |
| RHUM | Baba au ___ (spongy cake) |
| SCONE | Scotch pancake |
| PIKELET | Scotch pancake |
| DROPSCONES | Crempogs, flapjacks, hotcakes or Scotch pancakes, named for the manner in which batter is plopped onto a bakestone, griddle or pan (4,6) |
| SINGING | Belting out a song after a Scotch at first and two gin cocktails (7) |
| STOCHASTIC | Random order ? it's a scotch (10) |
| SAUSAGEMEAT | One of the ingredients of a Scotch egg |
| BELLS | Those ringing in the New Year with a Scotch? |
