Related Clues:

• Very happy to find bird's nest, say
• Hotel out from South Pole offering stock option?
• Gazpacho or gumbo, say
• First course in a tureen
• Very cheerful, but in trouble here?
• One's not at all clear or sure -- a pope should clarify
• Quietly use a rope to get around in thick fog
• Stock kin
• Early course at a restaurant
• Miso dish
• Beginning, in an idiom ... or a hint to the starred clues' answers, pre-transformation
• Thick fog metaphor ... and what each set of circled letters is?
• Minestrone or menudo
• Tureen fill
• Extremely excited having this on the restaurant menu?