| Watery course | 13 |
| Vichyssoise or gazpacho, e.g. | 29 |
| Vegetable or tomato, e.g. | 25 |
| Vegetable or tomato | 19 |
| Trouble, informally, with "the" | 41 |
| Tom yum, e.g. | 13 |
| Thick fog, in slang | 19 |
| Stones "Goats Head ___" | 33 |
| Stock's cousin | 18 |
| Starter, perhaps | 16 |
| Start of the word ladder | 24 |
| Split pea, e.g. | 15 |
| Schav is a cold one | 19 |
| Salad partner | 13 |
| Salad go-with | 13 |
| Rubaboo or skink | 16 |
| Rubaboo is one | 14 |
| Potage | 6 |
| Possible first course | 21 |
| Place for a fly, in jokes | 25 |
| Pepper pot, e.g. | 16 |
| Opposite of nuts? | 17 |
| Opening course, often | 21 |
| One type contains the alphabet | 30 |
| Nuts' opposite? | 19 |
| Mulligatawny or consommé | 27 |
| Mulligatawny | 12 |
| Minestrone, for instance | 24 |
| Minestrone, for example | 23 |
| Minestrone or won ton | 21 |
| Meal starter, frequently | 24 |
| Make more powerful, with "up" | 39 |
| Liquidy food | 12 |
| Liquid nourishment | 18 |
| Ladled salad bar item | 21 |
| Ladled course | 13 |
| Joke locale for a fly doing the backstroke | 42 |
| It's not forked out | 23 |
| It may be slurped | 17 |
| Gumbo, e.g. | 11 |
| Gumbo or skink | 14 |
| Gumbo or gazpacho | 17 |
| Gazpacho, for one | 17 |
| Gazpacho or cock-a-leekie | 25 |
| Food in a memorable "Seinfeld" episode | 48 |
| First course option | 19 |
| Extra horsepower, slangily | 26 |
| Extra horsepower, in slang | 26 |
| Egg drop, e.g. | 14 |
| Duck ____ | 9 |
| Dinner starter | 14 |
| Cream of mushroom, e.g. | 23 |
| Course with croutons | 20 |
| Course taken with a spoon | 25 |
| Course in a tureen | 18 |
| Counterpart of nuts | 19 |
| Consomme, e.g. | 14 |
| Chicken noodle, e.g. | 20 |
| Can it | 6 |
| Bowling for ___ (pop band with the song "1985") | 57 |
| Bouillon or bisque | 18 |
| Beginning course | 16 |
| Alternative to salad | 20 |
| Alphabet __ | 11 |
| Added power, in slang | 21 |
| Added horsepower | 16 |
| "Cream of" serving | 28 |
| -- -to-nuts | 11 |
| ___-to-nuts | 11 |
| Formal duds | 11 |
| Gentleman's evening clothes | 31 |
| Basic lunch | 11 |
| Lunch pair | 10 |
| Lunch combo | 11 |
| Stock maker's addition | 26 |
| Pitcher's throwing arm, in slang | 36 |
| Pitcher's throwing arm | 26 |
| Vichyssoise vessel | 18 |
| Porringers | 10 |
| Progresso, for one | 18 |
| Progresso or Lipton | 19 |
| Warhol motif | 12 |
| Certain Warhol subject | 22 |
| Andy Warhol subjects | 20 |
| Warhol painting subjects | 24 |
| Bisque holders | 14 |
| Slight-but-appreciable addition | 31 |
| Subtle amount | 13 |
| Small taste or, pronounced aloud, a hint to this puzzle's theme | 67 |
| Slight but appreciable amount | 29 |
| Slight but appreciable addition | 31 |
| Hint or slight trace | 20 |
| Bits or hints | 13 |
| Added power to a car (with ''up'') | 50 |
| Made more powerful, with "up" | 39 |
| Added power with up | 20 |
| ___-up, as a hot rod | 20 |
| ___ up (like some jalopies) | 27 |
| Like hot rods | 13 |
| Manipulated to be more powerful, as an engine | 45 |