| CRABMEAT | it's served as cake or puff |
| BAKE | Cook, as cake or brownies |
| ICES | Prepares, as cake or champagne |
| WHIFF | Word for a slight gust or puff; a waft or wave of odour; an inhalation of tobacco smoke; a small cigar; a flag hoisted as a signal; a narrow outrigger; an expulsion of shot; or, a jiffy (5) |
| BLOW | Word for a gust or puff of wind; an act of getting some fresh air; a wallop; a display of blossom; a jazz jam or rock session; a blast on a trumpet or whistle; or, a hurried departure (4) |
| QUILTING | The creative pursuit of crafting a layered or patchworked comforter, counterpane, coverlet or puff; the cloth, padding or pattern of stitching used; or, the work fabricated (8) |
| CHOU | French word for a cabbage; a cream bun or puff; a soft ornamental rosette; or, a term of endearment, akin to darling or dear (4) |
| PINWHEEL | A revolving firework; a whirl-like sandwich or puff-pastry savoury; a paper windmill or whirligig; Haworth's aeonium; or, an escapement for lifting the hammer of a striking clock (8) |
| TRAINER | Coach or puff-puff? Hesitation |
| MIX | A blend or union of things, such as cake ingredients or dance music (3) |
| APRICOT | Sometimes paired with ingredients such as orange blossom water, frangipane, pistachios or puff pastry, a peach-like fruit with velvety skin (7) |
| PANT | Word for a gasp, huff or puff ; a throb of the heart; a heave of the chest; or, a Scottish public drinking fountain (4) |
| VOLAUVENT | A small appetising bouchee, croustade, pie or puff with a savoury filling, whose name, from "flight in the wind" or "windblown", refers to the lightness of the pastry (3-2-4) |
| DRAG | Pull... or puff |
| FANGED | Like a vampire or puff adder |
| POWDER | Word with "keg" or "puff" |
| SWELL | Distend or puff up |
| AFRO | Word before "pick" or "puff" |
| ICING | Sugar coating as cake decoration (5) |
| ANGELICA | Candied stalks used as cake decoration (8) |
