| GROATS | Thick silver medieval coins; historical English fourpenny bits; hulled grains/berries of barley or oats; hence jots, small sums or whits (6) |
| GROAT | Fourpenny bit (5) |
| BREW | Word for a cup of tea, a ferment, a mash, a witch's potion or a zymotic beer of barley or wheat, all boiling down to the ancient idea of bubbling, burning, effervescing and heat (4) |
| EAR | Spike of barley or wheat; a display box at the head of a newspaper's front page for advertisements and teasers; or, an organ that enables hearing and body balance (3) |
| DENIER | Unit of weight used to describe the thickness of hosiery; or, the name of a Medieval coin struck wit |
| PUNCH | Name for the traditionally and etymologically "five-ingredient" drink of alcohol, citrus, spices, sugar and water served from a large bowl; or, a real or figurative blow, clout or fourpenny one, with |
| AWN | Beard of barley or rye (3) |
| CAPERS | Word for playful leaps or skips in a goat-like frolicking manner; high-spirited escapades; questionable acts; light-hearted heist films; or, pickled piquant flower-buds or berries of bramble-like vine |
| RUTLAND | Smallest of the historical English counties, it was incorporated into Leistershire from 1974 to 1997 |
| MALT | Barley or other cereal grain that is steeped, germinated and kiln-dried for brewing beer, distilling or making vinegar; or, a short word for a liquor, whisky or a milky drink, such as Horlicks or Oval |
| SPICES | Ingredients derived from the seeds, roots, bark or berries of plants (6) |
| ALLSPICE | Dried whole or ground berries of the tropical American tree Pimenta dioica, also called pimento and Jamaica pepper (8) |
| ETON | Historical English school (anagram of note) |
| JUNIPER | Evergreen coniferous shrub the berries of which are used in ginmaking, it grows well in the damp valleys of Mallorca's Sierra de Tramuntana mountain range (7) |
| PEPPER | A hot aromatic condiment from the dried berries of certain plants |
| HOLLIES | The foliage and berries of which shrubs are used during the Christmas season (7) |
| BLACKPEPPER | Dried unripe berries of the flowering vine Piper nigrum, ground as a condiment (5,6) |
| ELDER | The berries of this shrub help to make a delicious cordial (5) |
| REDCURRANTS | Small, bright edible berries of a shrub native to western Europe (11) |
| OBOLE | Medieval coin of France. |
