| FORCER | Terracotta pot used to encourage rhubarb to grow early in the season (6) |
| DIABLE | Meaning "devil", word for a terracotta pot with a handle that also refers to a piquant or spicy French brown sauce with black pepper and cayenne (6) |
| DAUBE | French stew, especially of beef, traditionally made in a terracotta pot |
| ROAST | Rhubarb to pack when supplying cook (5) |
| YOGURT | Sweetened, fruit-flavoured, Greekor Swiss-style, a food in its plain form that can be used to age/weather new terracotta pots and planters (6) |
| WASHUP | To clean the pots used to be hard at college (4,2) |
| TAYLOR | Who ended as the runner-up in the season-ending ATP Tour Final in Turin? (6) |
| WINOUT | Be victorious in all games left in the season |
| LAMENT | Song of mourning for a male in the season before Easter (6) |
| TAGINE | Conical clay pot used in North African cooking (6) |
| CARROT | One prov. used to encourage |
| ALUDEL | A pear-shaped pot used for collecting condensates (6) |
| RADISH | Vegetable pot used as base by artist (6) |
| DOUBLEBOILER | Pot used to make zabaglione (6,6) |
| RHUBARB | Vegetable stalks eaten as fruit in dishes including crumble, compote and fool, forced under terracotta pots in the garden in January and February (7) |
| RATHE | Of flowers or fruit, blooming or ripening early in the season (5) |
| URN | Pot used to contain the ashes of a dead person |
| TEAKETTLE | A metal pot used to make a brew of leaves (3-6) |
| UNDEFEATED | Like some baseball teams, early in the season |
| OTTAWA | Capital city surrounded by terracotta walls (6) |
