| NUT | A fruit consisting of a hard shell around an edible kernel (3) |
| NUTS | Fruits having hard shells around edible kernels (4) |
| BUTTERNUT | A goat joins a fool for an edible kernel |
| CAPSULE | Dry single-seeded fruit consisting of two fused carpels surrounded by a calyx sheath, as in plants of the daisy family (Asteraceae) (7) |
| AGATE | An ornamental stone consisting of a hard form of chalcedony (5) |
| KERNEL | Edible part within a hard shell of a nut / the whole seed of a cereal |
| BRAZILNUT | South American tree whose triangular nuts have an edible kernel (6,3) |
| PECAN | Pinkish brown smooth nut with an edible kernel |
| WALNUT | Head, after breaking law, getting an edible kernel (6) |
| COCONUT | Two companies fool with an edible kernel (7) |
| PINENUT | Edible kernel of a coniferous plant (4,3) |
| MOLLUSC | Typically building a protective shell around its soft body, an animal such as the"winding stair" wentletrap or the bubble-rafting violet sea snail whose genus, Janthina, derives from the Greek for "vi |
| EXOSKELETON | Scorpions have an ___, or a hard shell, on the outside of their bodies |
| HAZELNUT | Edible kernel of a small deciduous tree (8) |
| BRAZILNUTS | Edible kernels from fruit of a South American tree, rich in selenium (6,4) |
| CRUSTACEAN | Arthropod with a hard shell, such as a lobster, crab, shrimp or woodlouse (10) |
| CRUNCH | Sound of biting into a hard-shell taco |
| LOBSTER | Edible marine crustacean with a hard shell, two strong claws and eight legs |
| TURTLE | A reptile with flippers and a hard shell covering (6) |
| ALMOND | Variety of edible kernel/seed that can be turned into marzipan, a milk-like drink or nutbutter (6) |
