| TOPPING | Surface layer of food such as a sauce, garnish, sprinkles or any of those on a pizza; or, a dated word meaning excellent or splendid (7) |
| HEALTH | Natural sort of food such as toast |
| STARCH | Constituent of foods such as potatoes and pasta (6) |
| SLICE | Backspin in tennis; a ball that curves away from a player's dominant hand in golf; a triangle of pizza; or, a broad-bladed utensil (5) |
| SQUISH | Imitative word describing the sound of soft mud being walked on or a berry being crushed; public school slang for marmalade; or, a dated word for bosh, foolish talk or nonsense (6) |
| CARD | Programme of events at a racemeeting; or, a dated word for an eccentric or amusing person (4) |
| SLICEUP | Prepare to serve, as a pizza or pie |
| CRUST | Part of a pizza or the earth |
| SMALLS | Nickname for the responsions examination formerly conducted at Oxford University; or, a dated British term for undergarments (6) |
| PARROTS | Known collectively as a pandemonium or a prattle, psittacine popinjays such as lovebirds or any of those depicted in lithographs by Edward Lear (7) |
| BISCUIT | Form of unglazed pottery; a pale brown colour; or, a food such as a custard cream or a Rich Tea (7) |
| OBELISKS | Tapering stone pillars with pyramidal tops such as those at the centre of the Place de la Concorde in Paris or any of those in Egypt or Rome (8) |
| EVENT | Generic term for an occasion such as a concert or garden party, or any of those forming the British social season (5) |
| PATTERN | Repeated decorative design such as any of those by William Morris or Charles Voysey; or, a set of instructions for dressmaking, tailoring or knitting (7) |
| WINDOW | Frame with a plain pane or a panel of stained glass, such as any of those designed by Edward Burne-Jones or John Piper (6) |
| ANUS | Part of a cow that Nella Rose ate on a pizza as part of a Bushtucker Trial on I'm A Celeb in 2023 (4) |
| SKIM | A thin surface layer of ice, milk or oil; a quick read/glance; or, a bounce of a pebble in ducks and drakes (4) |
| QUOITS | Rings for encircling hobs or pegs in a game of the same name; or, megalithic cromlechs or dolmens such as any of those in Cornwall including the "giant's house" (6) |
| MURAL | Painting on a wall such as any of those in the Chauvet Cave in France, or by Titian, Diego Rivera or Banksy (5) |
| AVIARY | Enclosures for birds such as that built for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild at Waddesdon Manor or any of those at Lilford Hall (6) |
