| SEEDIER | Like a strawberry compared to an apple |
| REDDISH | Like a strawberry roan's coat, in part |
| FLECKED | Like a strawberry roan's coat |
| ONECROP | Like a strawberry farm |
| HULLED | Removed the stem of, like a strawberry |
| WORSE | Like a B+, compared to an A- |
| RARER | Like an albatross, compared to an eagle, in golf |
| FRUITKNIFE | Whether for coring an apple, hulling a strawberry, peeling a pear, segmenting a citrus or slicing a peach, it is a silver-bladed parer to keep out of reach (5-5) |
| EVE | Biblical first woman whose name, with allusion to the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden, was given to an apple-based pudding (3) |
| MEDLAR | Bitter fruit similar to an apple |
| PEAR | Cousin to an apple |
| BRUISE | Damage to an apple, for example |
| DEATH | What Mary Oliver compared to "an iceberg between the shoulder blades" in a 1992 work |
| STINGIER | Miser compared to an average Joe |
| WIDER | Freeway, compared to an alley |
| LIKENED | Compared to an old tree growth we heard (7) |
| WORLD | Earth, as compared to an oyster by Shakespeare (5) |
| FLAVOURENHANCER | Sugar to a strawberry or salt to a tomato: 2 wds. |
| SCARLETFEVER | An infectious disease characterised by a high temperature, a strawberry coloured tongue and a rash (7,5) |
| FRAISE | French word for a strawberry that is also eau-de-vie distilled from such; a 16th-century neck ruff; a horizontal palisade; or, a horological tool (6) |
