| RUMBABA | Steps taken before beginning to bake a small cake (3,4) |
| COB | Firm beginning to bake round loaf (3) |
| PATTYPAN | Central to a Beatrix Potter tale, a dish or tin in which to bake a little pie or cake; or, a miniature scalloped cymling squash, resembling this (8) |
| KEBAB | Manage to bake a little bread and you can eat it (5) |
| CAKEPAN | Piece to bake a dessert in |
| TARTLET | Sharp to allow a small cake (7) |
| BEEFTEA | Busy type gets newspaper before beginning to enjoy a drink |
| FRITTER | What is a small cake of batter, sometimes containing fruit, and fried (7) |
| WITLESS | Slow time entering manoeuvres before beginning to stop (7) |
| CHEERIO | See you check always before beginning to invest offshore |
| DEARSIR | This is read out before beginning to read |
| REPLETE | Full traveller meeting obstruction before beginning to eat |
| ADHERED | Attached plug hard before beginning to drill (7) |
| SHIATSU | Massage this as vigorously, before beginning to unwind (7) |
| LACERTA | Group of stars given censure before beginning to receive thanks (7) |
| GRANITA | Bake a gratin for Italian dessert (7) |
| LIKABLE | I'll bake a pleasing confection (7) |
| POMFRET | Would Englishman worry about a little cake? (7) |
| OVEN | A place to bake a cake or cook a roast dinner (4) |
| BUTTER | Word, from "cow cheese", for the pale-yellow churned cream with which to bake a cake, make a roux or veritably spread on one's crumpets or toast with honey from the bees (6) |
