The Times have a food-themed clue to kick us off today:
The answer isn’t exactly being spelt out for us, but almost. Rather than looking for an entire hidden word, the use of ‘occasionally’ is instead encouraging us to focus on picking out alternate letters.
‘Beans’, occasionally, might be ‘b’, ‘a’ and ‘s’. When these are ‘found in pancake’ (or found inside the word ‘taco’; a Mexican pancake) we’re left with a sauce, and the answer — TABASCO.
Is this the start of a cryptic hot streak? Get solving and find out.