| TACOSHELLS | They may be crunchy or soft (2 wds.) |
| TACO | Mexican fare that may be crunchy or soft |
| MAMABEAR | "Goldilocks" parent whose bed was too soft: 2 wds. |
| HARDG | Consonant heard twice in "gig" whose first word is the opposite of "soft": 2 wds. |
| PEANUTBUTTER | Spread that can be crunchy or creamy |
| PEANUTS | Edible "goobers" often roasted/salted for snacks or blended to make a crunchy or smooth spread (7) |
| CEREALBAR | Crunchy or chewy breakfast snack item (6,3) |
| SELLS | They may be hard or soft |
| CRIMPS | Pinched or fluted edges of pies or pasties; waves in wool fibres or made with tongs; or, soft beads squashed with pliers in jewellery-making (6) |
| SELL | It may be hard or soft |
| EGGS | They might be poached or soft-boiled |
| EGG | Food that may be hard-boiled or soft-boiled |
| WRAP | Shawl or pashmina-like garment; or, a flatbread or soft tortilla folded around a filling (4) |
| STUFFING | A forcemeat-like mixture of breadcrumbs and herbs with which to fill a goose, turkey or other bird before being roasted; or, padding for a cushion, pillow or soft toy (8) |
| CAM | The Granta in Cantabrigia upon which the May Bumps rowing races take place; a Scots word for blue-grey clay, pipeclay, a slate pencil or soft slate; or, from "comb, cogwheel", a rotating piece on a me |
| LOW | Word meaning near the ground or the equator; down in spirits; deep or soft, as in one's voice; or, base (3) |
| STRAW | Dried stalks of grain, used to make corn-dollies, mulch for fragum plants, scarecrows or soft beds for horses, especially if they're tired or lame (5) |
| RARE | Old sparse, today's scarce, like gold dust, hens' teeth or ancient glass; or, once a word for a "half-cooked" or soft-boiled oeuf, now "bleu" for boeuf (4) |
| PASTEL | Homophonous with a word for a fruit drop, lozenge or pellet of aromatic incense burned for a pleasant scent or stink, a delicate, pale or soft colour from mint to bubble gum pink (6) |
| SWANSDOWN | A cygnine cob or pen's under-plumage, traditionally used for passementerie or vanity-table puffs; or, soft-napped fabric mimicking said feathery eider-like fluff (9) |
