| CREAMCRACKER | The best solver gets a biscuit (5,7) |
| CHAMPION | Best solver embodying Holmes, initially (8) |
| GINGERNUT | After a drink, German enthusiast gets a biscuit (6,3) |
| SAFECRACKER | Peter gets a biscuit for the felon (4,7) |
| GARIBALDI | In speech, actor Oldman, one who's thin on top, gets a biscuit (9) |
| YOUNGEST | The solver gets sent out with note, being most junior |
| YOUNGSTER | Solver gets extremely near solution for one of the above (9) |
| YOUTHFUL | Solver gets the truncated variety of flu, like 18 (8) |
| YOUNG | Junior solver gets nothing on vacation (5) |
| ONLYYOU | Sole solver gets hit in 1956 (4,3) |
| COMMENSURATE | Consistent remark about a biscuit almost raised a point (12) |
| CUSTARDCREAM | A biscuit consisting of two layers with a filling of vanillaflavoured paste (7,5) |
| CRACKER | A biscuit serving as a vehicle for conveying cheese from plate to palate; a prawn-flavoured crisp-like snack; a banger; a beauty; a hacker; or, a snapper once called a bonbon (7) |
| CRUNCH | Word imitative of a loud champ, chew or chomp of a croquette or bite of a biscuit; a crisis; a credit squeeze; a sit-up; or, the moment of truth (6) |
| TIN | A can for food or paint; a biscuit caddy; or, a loaf cooked in an item of bakeware of the same name (3) |
| BATHOLIVER | Give the boy a wash and a biscuit (4,6) |
| GINGERSNAP | A spice girl is over the photo of a biscuit (10) |
| WAFER | A few go round the side for a biscuit (5) |
| OLIVER | Companion of Roland; a Dickensian orphan; a biscuit from Bath; or, the "Naked Chef" (6) |
| MACAROON | With a similar name to that of a French meringue-based confection, a biscuit of egg whites, ground almonds/coconut and sugar (8) |
