| CANISTER | This contains tea, we hear, in a mixture of arsenic! (8) |
| DOWNTURN | Drop of tea, we hear, in blue vessel (8) |
| TANTRUM | Paddy's brown drink contains tea, I hear (7) |
| HEAR | Try some of the arsenic! |
| ACROSTIC | A sign of wrong and right, we hear, in a puzzle (8) |
| FLOTILLA | Current requiring means for steering, we hear, in a set of boats (8) |
| MARINATE | Soak in a mixture of ingredients before cooking (8) |
| CURLICUE | What Mikado threatened billiard cheat with, we hear, in a decorative twist |
| GUARDIAN | He'll protect a drug in a mixture (8) |
| MAINTAIN | Carry on with a mint in a mixture (8) |
| ANALYSTS | They should be able to identify any salts in a mixture (8) |
| ANALYSIS | They should be able to identify any salts in a mixture (8) |
| ACANTHUS | Area like this contains container for plant (8) |
| LUNCHBOX | Food fight? This contains some of the ammunition |
| APPEASER | Conciliator one might hear in a city in Italy? (8) |
| MARINADE | Soak in a mixture before cooking (8) |
| PASTICHE | The aspic dissolves in a mixture (8) |
| SMASHHIT | Cooked, this contains potatoes, certainly no turkey! (5,3) |
| ASSORTED | Consisting of various kinds of arsenic, classified (8) |
| ORPIMENT | Yellow sulphide mineral of arsenic formerly used as a pigment, similar to the red realgar (8) |
