| TRAUMAMICE | Vestige or, with an acquired taste, pests that treat people with emotional distress? |
| PUNSWEETCH | Boxing strike or, with an acquired taste, groaners that you and I carve in stone? |
| HOWSALTYLER | Hilarious joke or, with an acquired taste, "What's Mr. Pacino up to these days, Mr. Perry?" |
| PIESOURCE | Portion or, with an acquired taste, a puzzle clue for BAKERY? |
| CARLSWEETOAD | Sedan's capacity or, with an acquired taste, astronomer Sagan's teeny amphibious pet? |
| MABITTERRY | Pieta figure or, with an acquired taste, cellist Yo-Yo sunk his teeth into director Gilliam? |
| FORUMAMIGO | Skip or, with an acquired taste, compadre posting on a message board? |
| NASALTYPE | Scruff or, with an acquired taste, twangy-sounding sort of personality? |
| GRABITTERIN | Bit of sand or, with an acquired taste, "Seize Gomez's hairy cousin, Ms. Brockovich!"? |
| THATSOURCHER | 1980s prime minister or, with an acquired taste, "There's the 'Believe' singer whom we both know and love"? |
| SOS | On a Friday or Saturday night, the ... bus will help those visitors to Norwich's pubs and clubs whose 'well-being is threatened by illness or injury, emotional distress or other vulnerability' (1.1.1. |
| OXIDE | Any binary compound of oxygen with another element or with an organic radical (5) |
| VAST | Like many a sea, or, with an "a" in front, an order to stop while asea |
| GHOST | A spectre or spirit; a person's soul; semblance; a faint trace, glimmer or vestige; or, a 1990 film featuring the song Unchained Melody (5) |
| TRACK | A path, route or way taken; a footprint; a vestige; or, a scarcely detectable amount of rain (5) |
| POI | Hawaiian food that's an acquired taste for many tourists |
| IRE | Fury that's a bit of an acquired taste? (3) |
| IPA | Type of beer that some consider an acquired taste: Abbr. |
| VERMIN | Pests that spread diseases or destroy crops or livestock (6) |
| OMBRE | Spanish card game named for the "man" who wins the hand; or, with an accent, a transition of colours from dark to light, as in hair or fabric (5) |
