Puzzle 15

Despairing, bleak, without confidence

Mixture for Silly Putty: boric acid and __ oil

__ Payard, pastry chef, luxury dessert creator

Deception and cunning deceit

__ Conticini, French chef, owns Gâteaux d’émotions

Liza __, whose parents both won Oscars too

Kitchen offshoot where washing-up is done

Ronettes tune where Spector used the wall of sound

Thumbing a ride

Golden brown gamebird with bright red/blue head

Last food eaten at a Passover Seder (Hebrew term)

The back strip in tennis