| HOISINSAUCE | Sushi on ice, a strange item of oriental cuisine |
| OPERAHAT | Atop her a strange item of headgear |
| TARBOOSH | Robot has strange item of headgear (8) |
| ODDITY | Did toy become a strange item? (6) |
| OCEANIA | South Pacific On Ice a shambles of the first order (7) |
| AMERICANO | 9 on ice - a new type of coffee (9) |
| NOVOCAINE | Month on ice, a manufactured anaesthetic (9) |
| FREEZE | Word for a layer of icy dew; a period of said frost or of cold subzero weather; or, alluding to the motionless ice, a halt, stoppage or wage fix (6) |
| FLOE | Ice ---, a sheet of ice, of variable size, floating in the sea (4) |
| BECHEDEMER | The trepang or "sea slug", a delicacy in oriental cuisine |
| EASTERN | Oriental cuisine's finale: a small bird (7) |
| TIMEPIECE | Clock, perhaps - strange item on counter (9) |
| EGGTIMER | Kitchen gadget, say, strange item in possession of Greek (3,5) |
| PICK | A tool such as an awl for chipping ice, a hoof cleaner, a hammer for fossil hunting or a plectrum (4) |
| ASSASSIN | He ices a couple of out-of-date cakes on the spot |
| SOY | Sauce used in oriental cuisine (3) |
| FENNEL | Pale green liquorice flavoured seeds used in Oriental cuisine (6) |
| SHIITAKE | Log-growing mushroom often used in oriental cuisine |
| SOYS | Important beans in oriental cuisine |
| CURIO | Canton invested in company to produce strange item |
