| PADDINGTONBEAR | Waffle mixture of a Bronte character with a liking for marmalade (10,4) |
| EYRE | "The ___ Affair" (murder mystery set in the universe of a Bronte novel) |
| BARONET | New version of a Bronte title |
| SHIRLEYKEELDAR | A Charlotte Bronte character, an orphaned heiress, in a novel published in 1849 (7,7) |
| DEEPFRIARTUCK | Sherwood chap with a liking for battered chicken and fish and mini doughnuts? |
| MOLOTOV | Soviet statesman (with a liking for cocktails?), d. 1986 (7) |
| POPEYE | Comic-strip sailor with a liking for spinach (6) |
| ORANGE | Seville -; crossed with a lemon for the hybrid bergamot, citrus tree with fruit used for marmalade, blossom for neroli oil and leaves/bark for petitgrain (6) |
| CITRUS | General name for a fruit such as a Seville orange, bergamot or Sorrento lemon, used for marmalade, Earl Grey, neroli or limoncello, for example (6) |
| NEROLI | Oil distilled from a fruit used for marmalade or studded with cloves for a festive pomander (6) |
| SQUISH | Imitative word describing the sound of soft mud being walked on or a berry being crushed; public school slang for marmalade; or, a dated word for bosh, foolish talk or nonsense (6) |
| SEVILLE | Capital of Andalusia; or, a variety of orange used for marmalade (7) |
| SEAFOOD | Mixture of a dose can be made from ocean fruits (7) |
| RADIUM | First class drum mixture of a natural radioactive element |
| BARRICADE | Strengthen mixture of a cider stored behind counter (9) |
| PASTE | Mixture of a soft and malleable consistency (5) |
| ONGUARD | Watchful number turned over mixture of a drug (2,5) |
| HEATHCLIFF | Emily Bronte character played in films by Laurence Olivier, Timothy Dalton and Ralph Fiennes |
| ROCHESTER | Bronte character - check Edward's first in list (9) |
| EYRIE | Bronte character Jane grabbing one from eagle's nest (5) |
