Complete Clue List
Across
1. Sticky rice surrounding a sweet bean centre (J)
4. Prepare for takeoff?
7. Japanese garden fish (J)
8. Japanese fish dish (J)
9. Kidney-related
10. Knows about (2,2,2)
12. "Hayashi rice" is a thick ____ stew, served on rice
14. Startled cry in comics or cartoons
16. Japanese fish delicacy requiring a special license to prepare (J)
17. Japanese floor covering (J)
20. Another name for zosui, a soup containing rice stewed in stock (J)
22. Soy sauce flavour and one of the five basic tastes (J)
23. Chatter (slang)
24. Soy sauce, in Japan (J)
25. Worried words from someone offered 16A (1,4)
Down
1. Gohan or ____ is plainly cooked white rice (J)
2. Having a snack
3. School of Japanese painting depicting subjects from everyday life (J)
4. Sweet, steamed cake made of rice flour (J)
5. Buddhist discipline (J)
6. Takikomi gohan is a Japanese-style ____ (dish with seasoned rice)
11. Fishing aid
13. Japanese soybean (J)
15. Elaborate Japanese drama (J)
16. Supermarket offerings, some of which can be used in Japanese cuisine
18. More frosty, as are some cold Japanese desserts
19. Nanakusa-____: Japanese seven-herb rice porridge (J)
21. Bachelor's last words (1,2)