| SPECKLE | Spot animal with mushrooms on the way back (7) |
| INSPECTOR | Gadget maybe peeled pink rhubarb and mushrooms on the counter (9) |
| CHURCH | Charlotte, Welsh singer who was Mushroom on the third series of The Masked Singer in 2022 (6) |
| DONTBEASTRANGER | National spot animal park employee patrols you should visit more often |
| SCRAPE | Spot animal disorder I avoided (6) |
| PORCINI | Wild mushrooms on a menu (7) |
| AGARICS | As cigar is altered it is now to do with mushrooms (7) |
| STADDLE | Word for a tree left unfelled; or, a prop or "stone mushroom" on which a granary, haystack or rick rests (7) |
| TOPPING | Onion or mushroom, on a pizza |
| FORCEPS | Pincers to deal with mushrooms |
| ALAKING | Cooked in cream sauce with mushrooms and green pepper (1,2,4) |
| RISOTTO | Creamy Italian dish often made with mushrooms |
| SMOTHER | Cover thickly, as with mushrooms |
| SCEPTIC | Doubting Simon starts to have reaction with mushroom (7) |
| RING | A band of gold or silver, sometimes set with gems; an "elf circle" of champignon mushrooms on a woodland floor; one of the concentric markings in the trunk of a tree; or, a disc of matter orbiting Sat |
| MUMS | Those with familial connections to mushrooms on both sides of borders (4) |
| ALOE | Singer Blacc who was the Mushroom on season 4 of The Masked Singer |
| ORELSE | Vague threat from uncapped mushrooms on middle of steak |
| SPACEPROBE | Explorer finds spring mushroom on cape (5,5) |
| STROGANOFF | Beef dish with mushrooms in sour cream (10) |
