| GOURD | Cucumber or squash |
| PEPO | Botanical description of a fleshy cucurbitaceous fruit or berry with a hard rind such as a watermelon, pumpkin, cucumber or squash (4) |
| WALLY | Dialect for a pickled cucumber or gherkin; a mild insult meaning "fool"; or, a bespectacled figure wearing a red-and-white stripy jumper, hidden in a series of picture puzzles (5) |
| PHALLIC | Like cucumber or a banana, maybe |
| VEG | Cucumber or carrot to a Brit |
| SEA | Word with cucumber or change |
| BEARN | Type of fruit such as an avocado, banana, cucumber or tomato (5) |
| GHERKIN | A small pickled cucumber or large cornichon from which a London skyscraper derives its nickname (7) |
| VEGETABLE | Word that derives from "animated, enliven, excite", yet is used to describe an inanimate object in the form of a cabbage, carrot, cauliflower, courgette, cucumber or other edible part of a plant (9) |
| BECHEDEMER | Sea cucumber or trepang, eaten as a soup mainly in China |
| CRUSH | A jam or squash of people or things; a drink of fruit juice/puree; a pen for handling cattle; or, an infatuation (5) |
| MARKER | A beacon, buoy or other indicator; a thick felt-tip pen; a scorekeeper in billiards or squash; an attendance recorder; or, a counter in a game (6) |
| RACKET | ____ sports, those involving a bat strung with catgut or nylon, such as badminton or squash (6) |
| SPORT | Hurling or squash |
| RACQUETS | Used to play tennis or squash |
| PRESSES | Used to print newspapers or squash grapes |
| PEPITA | Edible seed of a pumpkin or squash |
| COURGETTE | Small marrow or squash (9) |
| SQUEEZE | A tactic at bridge or squash |
| SPAGHETTI | Type of pasta, or squash (9) |
