| BERRY | Type of fruit stored in a punnet; or, a former GBBO judge who has written numerous cookery-books including Christmas Collection (5) |
| SPEARHEAD | Fruit stored in a shed in poor condition could be a sticking point (9) |
| STRAWBERRY | Fruit usually bought in a punnet that can be eaten with cream or, less traditionally, ground black p |
| BERRIES | Fruits in a punnet (7) |
| BASKET | General name for a woven creel, hamper, pannier, punnet or trug (6) |
| BREADBASKETS | Bannetons, cobs, panniers or other woven hampers for holding loaves or serving rolls; bellies, paunches or pots resembling said punnets or receiving said crumb; or, granary nations or wheaten lands of |
| BASKETS | Woven receptacles such as hampers, skeps, Sussex trugs, panniers, seedlips, punnets or creels (7) |
| CHIP | A flake of stone; a splinter; one of a number of thin woody strips interwoven into a basket or box for fruit; a punnet fashioned in this manner; a French fry; or, in the US, a potato crisp (4) |
| TWINKLE | A dance step; a glitter; a blink or a wink; the scintillation or sparkle of a light or a celestial star; or, a former comic for girls (7) |
| BONHAM | A founder in 1793 of the auction house with a flagship saleroom in Mayfair; or, a former Led Zeppelin drummer (6) |
| CHUM | A chamber-fellow, companion, comrade or crony; anglers' groundbait of chopped fish; a keta salmon; or, a former name of meaty meals prepared by Pedigree for pet pooches (4) |
| SHEA | Type of butter used in cosmetics - or a former baseball stadium in New York (4) |
| SNAG | A wooden peg; a protuberance on a tree trunk/branch; or, a former Scottish word for a woodpecker (4) |
| MARKHIX | Chef and restaurateur born in 1960 who has written a number of books on British cuisine (4,3) |
| LAWSON | Nigella -; author of a number of cookery books including How to Eat, How to Be A Domestic Goddess and Feast (6) |
| ROVER | Croquet ball ready to peg out; a random or long-distance mark for shooting at in archery; or, a former name for a Venture Scout (5) |
| GERMAINEGREER | Feminist author who has written under the names of Rose Blight in Private Eye and Dr G in Oz |
| SPEARS | Asparagus and fruit stored in hold of ship (6) |
| TUSK | A feature of 12 - or a former President of the European Council (4) |
| WOOD | Explorer who has written about his adventures in books including Walking the Nile, Walking the Himalayas, Eastern Horizons and Arabia (4) |
