| EGGPLANT | Alternative name for an aubergine (8) |
| EPISTYLE | Alternative name for an architrave; from Greek, 'upon pillar' (8) |
| SNOWSLIP | A British alternative name for an avalanche |
| BERRY | Used for preserves, pickles and puddings, fruit such as an aubergine, avocado, banana, grape sweet pepper or tomato that derives from a single flower (5) |
| EGG | This plant is an aubergine (3) |
| BEARN | A coffee bean; a lobster or crayfish's egg; a soft fruit such as an aubergine, avocado, banana or to |
| HEIR | What is an alternative name for an inheritor (4) |
| PROVIDENTSOCIETY | Alternative name for an association for relief in illness, old age or widowhood (9,7) |
| MOTOR | '___ train', alternative name for an 'auto-train' (5) |
| CASHPOINT | Alternative name for an ATM (9) |
| GAMP | Alternative name for an umbrella, from a character in Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) |
| EGGFRUIT | Something laid on rut if prepared for aubergine (8) |
| MOUSSAKA | Greek dish of lamb and aubergine (8) |
| CAPONATA | Traditional Sicilian aubergine stew (8) |
| MOUYSAKA | Greek dish with layers of meat and aubergine (8) |
| MOLASSES | Black treacle used in sticky toffee pudding, gingerbread, parkin and aubergine stew (8) |
| KALAMATA | Messinian capital whose local delicacies include figs, honey-sesame bars, raisins, wild herbs and, most notably, its eponymous aubergine-coloured almond-shaped olives (8) |
| MADAPPLE | Aubergine makes the old woman marked with spots |
| BRINJAL | Alternative name for the aubergine used in India and Africa; from Arabic via Portuguese (7) |
| ANTIPASTI | For starters, aubergine nuggets tossed in pesto, for example, Italian served up? (9) |
