| BOCCONCINI | Word, from Italian for "mouthful", for bitesized balls of mozzarella (10) |
| DIM | ___ sum: bitesized Chinese fare |
| BIT | From Old English for "mouthful", a crumb, morsel or scrap; a bridle's snaffle or other metal mouthpiece; any small coin or piece; an awl for a brace or a drill; or, a brief space of time (3) |
| SCHNAPPS | Liquor like Goldschlager, from the German for "mouthful" (8) |
| PAPPARDELLE | Word, from Italian for "devour, eat hungrily/greedily, gobble up", for broad ribbons of pasta for ragu (11) |
| QUARTETTE | Word from Italian for a composition for four (9) |
| CAPRICE | Word, from Italian for "hedgehog-head", suggesting a shudder in which hair stood on end like said urchin's spines, for a sudden start/fright, mood change, impulsive act or whim (7) |
| BRINDISI | Word from Italian for toast or drinking-song (8) |
| OPERABUFFA | Expression from Italian for comic musical drama (5,5) |
| AVENTURINE | Green gem stone whose name is derived from Italian for "by chance" |
| ADDIO | Word from Italian for goodbye (5) |
| SONNET | Word from Italian for "little tune" |
| CARICATURE | From Italian for "distorted" |
| DILETTANTE | From Italian for "amateur" |
| QUARANTINE | From Italian for "forty days" |
| TRAMPOLINE | From Italian for "springboard" |
| TERRACOTTA | From Italian for "baked earth" |
| IMPRESARIO | From Italian for "entrepreneur" |
| CONFETTI | From Italian for "bonbons", word for little sweets or exploding white-cloud-forming balls of plaster flung at carnivals originally, later for pieces of colourful fluttering paper thrown over brides/gr |
| OMERTA | Word from Italian meaning conspiracy of silence (6) |
