| PEES | 40% of an apple |
| CORE | Centre of Earth or of an apple, pear or quince; magnetic memory of a computer; or, the positively charged nucleus of an atom (4) |
| ATOM | If an apple were magnified to the size of the Earth, this would be close to the size of an apple |
| CRUNCH | A sit-up; a credit squeeze; the sound of the bite of an apple or of snow/gravel underfoot; or, a type of chocolate bar containing crushed biscuits or puffed rice (6) |
| NOSE | Part of the body synonymous with prying; a hound's sense of smell; the bouquet of wine; or, the withered flower of an apple, gooseberry etc (4) |
| PIP | Word for a single blossom; a lily of the valley rhizome; a chirp of a bird; a dot on a domino; or, from the name of an apple grown from seed, a tiny fruitlet or kernel of a Bramley, Cox, grape, strawb |
| TELL | Splitter of an apple with an arrow |
| SLICE | Piece of an apple ... or apple pie |
| BRANCH | Part of chain? Refuse 40% of chain (6) |
| SEVERE | Taxing 80% of 7 + 40% of 3? (6) |
| STRUDEL | It's of consuming interest if you"re thinking of an apple (7) |
| STEM | Part of an apple ... or fields for jobs at Apple |
| BOB | Robert's nickname (or to dip your head in a bucket of water in search of an apple) |
| ALAR | Cause of an apple-related scare |
| IPAD | Target of an Apple Pencil |
| PARE | Remove, as the skin of an apple |
| CORING | Taking out the middle of an apple |
| OSX | Tenth version of an Apple platform |
| CPU | Core of an Apple, for short |
| OPRAH | Host of an Apple TV+ book club |
