| Indian curry dish |
| Legume used in the Indian dish dal |
| Reddish spice |
| Skewered meat dish |
| What a shame |
| A dish best served cold |
| Dried-meat dish |
| Carnivore's comment about what to eat during bad weather? |
| Mexican dish |
| List of dishes |
| What's your ___?" ("When is your flight supposed to land?"): Abbr. |
| Somewhat safe sword |
| Anchor who has no idea what he's talking about? |
| Dishearten |
| Alternative title of this puzzle, in view of what can be placed in front of the answers to the 10 asterisked clues |
| Reddish-brown lynx |
| Pasta dishes |
| A fiendish person. |
| What lobsters and crabs have |
| Mushy dish from buckwheat |
| Childish rejoinder |
| Bachelor of ___ (what a "B.A." degree stands for) |
| Reddish-orange gem |
| Dishonorable types |
| What initials on something may signify |
| Whatever it takes ... as hinted at in the arrangements of black squares around the circled letters |
| What you might accidentally try to put your head through when getting into a sweater |
| Breakfast dish |
| What faking a stomachache might entail? |
| Dish dubbed "the greatest recipe to originate from the Americas in 50 years" by the International Society of Epicures in 1953 |