| BERRY | A cereal grain; or, a coffee bean (5) |
| NABOB | Wealthy fellow, or a coffee brand |
| MINIM | From "smallest", a least part; a half-note; a short downstroke of a pen; an apothecaries' measure/weight equal to one drop of water or one grain; or, a small bronze Roman coin (5) |
| BEARN | A coffee bean; a lobster or crayfish's egg; a soft fruit such as an aubergine, avocado, banana or to |
| ACORN | A grain or a fruit (5) |
| WHEAT | A cereal grain (5) |
| KERNEL | From "corn", a word for a grain or a seed; the edible part of a nut; a core or essential part; or, a nucleus (6) |
| STRICKLE | Name, rhyming with a word for a drip or a type of chutney, for a rod for levelling a heaped measure of grain; or, a tool for whetting a scythe (8) |
| OATEN | Made of a cereal grain |
| YIELD | Measurement of a harvested crop such as grapes or grain; or, the profit or return on an investment (5) |
| MOCHA | Fine quality coffee bean (5) |
| MAIZE | A tall cereal grass; its grain; or, the yellow colour of its corncobs (5) |
| SACKS | Cotton, hessian or linen bags for flour, grain or potatoes (5) |
| FAN | Type of basket formerly used for winnowing grain; or, a hand-held cooling device with a paper, silk or bamboo concertina variety (3) |
| MEAL | Ground oats or other grain; or, a repast such as lunch or supper (4) |
| ELEVATOR | A machine for raising grain, or a building equipped with this |
| GUARANA | A single seed of this Brazilian plant contains three times more caffeine than a coffee bean - hence |
| ARABICA | Heard in Riyadh, a coffee bean(7) |
| CHAFF | From "chew, gnaw", a word for the husk of grain; or, cut hay/straw (5) |
| GLEAN | Collect grain (or information?) (5) |
